Henri Bergson Quotes

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what you’re parents want you to do, or what that beautiful girl or guy thinks you should be doing. Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go. Go out there and make the world more beautiful. I know you can.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.

I can paint in jail.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Express yourself in any way possible.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

As a creative, you have to be your truest form. You can't worry about fitting into whatever boxes people want to put you in.