"expressive needs" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the need to express oneself in a given situation. For example, "The artist's expressive needs compelled them to create a series of works depicting their emotions."
Sharing this exoticism with the Romantics, Goethe nevertheless was able to adapt the mode to his own expressive needs.
After her foray into journalism, Carnie Holdsworth returned to Lancashire and decided poetry no longer met her expressive needs.
Altogether we see a fearless young woman, unencumbered by rules or ideology, making free with painting's materials and history, bending other artists' styles and motifs to her own highly individual expressive needs.
It conjures a vivid portrait of the artist as a fearless young woman, unencumbered by rules or ideology, who had a remarkable ability to bend other artists' styles and motifs to her own expressive needs.
The vividness is the result of many factors: scholarship; instruments appropriate to the expressive needs of the music, and the inspired collaboration between Mr. Bilson and Mr. Gardiner, both of whom present familiar music with an uncanny sense of urgency.
She operates at a remove from the style's originators, but remains a true believer, expanding and refining a known vocabulary with her own expressive needs, approach to materials and assured touch.
Until that point, the overriding sense is of a musical based on skilled professionalism rather than expressive need.
But Prince hit, I suspect, on a profound truth: above all, this is a work about destructive obsession and seems to spring from some dark, expressive need in Sondheim himself.
This texture would be woven from basic thematic ideas, or leitmotivs ("leading motives"); these would arise naturally as expressive vocal phrases sung by characters at crucial emotional points of the drama and then be developed by the orchestra as "reminiscences" in accordance with the expressive need of the dramatic and psychological development of the action.
The female baby boomers perceived age appropriateness as another important expressive need for their tennis wear.
Whatever you think of his clear leanings in the presidential race, he is a fascinating, dangerous showman whose expressive face needs to be seen more often than highlight narration allows.
