Quotes About Expression

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storylines that are not necessarily what's cranking at the back of your mind, or digging at the potential of your character and you have to sit on your hands, that's frustrating.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.

If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the great potential for an understanding between collectors, curators and galleries.

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.

You create content because you love it, not necessarily because you're looking for fame or know what it will potentially lead to.

I've always loved to write. I've been writing a lot longer than I've been acting, and I hope to continue to do that and maybe do it a little bit more in terms of, like, writing movies that I could potentially act in.

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.

Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

I graduated from college December of 2017 and looking ahead and thinking about potentially starting a book, I just kept getting hung up before even starting because I didn't want to write a book that only people that have served in the military or that have been to combat could understand.

I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats.

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.

Nobody interviewed Kitty Potter about what she wore. I would have loved to hear what she would have said about some of this stuff.

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

Marcia Gay Harden

Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.