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There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
There, display and extravagance, in dress, in furniture, in costly entertainments, are startling. They seem to push you back into a corner, like a poor intruder at a feast; they are apt to make you envious, or take your breath away with amazement.
There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right,
mounted to best advantage.
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though
and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.
The privacy of pride.
I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'
I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.
Acting in its purest form is an urge from deep in the human psyche to celebrate our aliveness, to act our dreams and fantasies in a public display of our most private selves.
I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.
Being self-conscious. Treating one's self as an other. Supervising oneself.
Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.
Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.
The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.
Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.
What is modesty but inverted pride?
garish displays of wealth,
I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
I'm not much of a show-off.
I'm not a show-off by nature.
It's all about impressing people.
Prudery is a form of selfishness, a means of self-protection made necessary by the strength of one's own desires.
I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.
The mere act of sharing something can, in other words, be a form of self-expression.
Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the world - not the whole world which couldn't care less, but my private world, which is my country, Canada.
I naturally want to be provocative.
The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous ... they ought to be abolished.
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.
you're a writer when we (I) know what you truly are: a performer, an exhibitionist.
Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.
We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.
Some were drawn towards displays of physical showboating, when it came to cats, while others preferred subtle intellectual stimulation.
Maybe now if you're not an exhibitionist you're private. Or maybe it's just that for a lot of people - sometimes in interesting ways, sometimes in stupid ways - there's no division between the art object and what surrounds it.
People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.
Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.
There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.
The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.
It is his intense desire to impress the person he loves most,
unbounded vanity.
Art is the communication of ecstasy.
Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.
Its just tryna impress the world and then realizing that, that doesn't even matter really, you gotta impress yourself.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
It's not just about private time. It's the atmosphere, the music and the lighting. It's about doing something in public you know you shouldn't and doing it anyway for the thrill of it.
Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.
Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.
And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.
I don't show off. I merely demonstrate my abilities at opportune times.
Those who show off do not shine.
I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.
Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view ... Make a spectacle of yourself.
The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it's easy for me to travel.
There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.
Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
Hiding. Covering up. Self-protection. Feeling exposed. They are telltale signs of shame.
Playfulness: that infantile quality we sneer at whilst busying ourselves with intellect and seriousness. And misery.
I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share ...
Leisure with dignity.
Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.
Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.
But in public who shall express the unseen adequately? It is private life that holds out the mirror to infinity; personal intercourse, and that alone, that ever hints at a personality beyond our daily vision.
There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful.
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
On Creating - What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
An admission of extreme otherness,
Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.
I don't think that I'm modest by any means, but I'm also not an exhibitionist.
It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.
the false courage of association with a crowd.
I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.
The playful search for beauty.
salacious gossip. The fact that
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
Making love with his ego.
Curious, a man's affection for the object that he manipulates.
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.
PERFORMANCE
Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.
When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.
What people will do to get away from boredom!
Prudery is ignorance.
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform. The
Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world ... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
HUMILIATION: Humiliation play is connected to sexual fetishism and can be associated with exhibitionism in the sense of wanting others to witness one's sexual degradation. Activities such as name-calling are a way of achieving ego reduction or getting over sexual inhibitions.
Giving one another the rather embarrassed grins of people who know that they've just been part of a synchronized making-a-fool-of-yourself team.
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself.
Entertainment has a bad name ... The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights.
Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.