Quotes About Expression

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content.

I don't have to alter the way I look - I can still wear a short, tight dress, but if what I'm saying is correct, then hopefully you garner respect.

I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least amount of words possible and I respect that.

Fashion's about taking chances, it's about taking risks, and just doing it the way you feel comfortable doing it. If you do that, people will respect it more.

I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.

Respect movements, flee schools.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

In fully accepting your creative power, you honor and respect your soul and remind others to do the same.

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter how well I do it, it's not really my format.