Quotes About Expression

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

I just write when fear overtakes me.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.