Quotes About Expression

Sometimes when you're creating something, it takes on a life of its own, and you can be surprised at how sad or dramatic it might get.

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?

Personal adornment is the only cultural form that everybody in the world takes part in.

Music is my life. If music takes a backseat, everything will go away from my life.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

If I want to do song and dance, I will and I would like to but I don't want to do it in every film. Where is the novelty then? It just takes the fun out of work for me.

There is no such thing as playing someone else's character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting it on screen.

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.

I'm not good at taking pictures. I can't give a good face. I crack up.

I approach the world as a whole by taking an integrative approach, not a world of parts, and I like to bring different fields and disciplines together. The same is true with my preoccupation with cultural expression.

Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.

Taking sartorial risks and not following other people is what makes you stand out.

I want to grow as an artist, and I'm taking a step out. I want my music to mature.

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.

My dad bought me a camera, and I started taking it everywhere with me. I realised how much I was enjoying the whole process - from taking the images to editing them and developing them - and it soon became a complete passion.

I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

It's important to have strong images of women out there, women who aren't afraid of expressing themselves, women who aren't afraid of taking chances, women who aren't afraid of their own power.

Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.

The goal is never be a copycat of ourselves. It's more along the lines of taking risks in our music.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.