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Quotes About Expression

(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."
~ Humphrey Bogart
Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.
~ Robin G. Collingwood
That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.
~ Jimmy Buffett
I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.
~ Alex Pettyfer
Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.
~ Neil Simon
I think everyone has their own version of romance like and I think everyone has their own romantic side.
~ Britt Robertson
I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible.
~ Bruno Tonioli
Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.
~ Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.
~ Edward Herrmann
I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.
~ David Bowie
Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.
~ Ayn Rand
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
~ Katie Roiphe
I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.
~ Robert Plant
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
~ Anais Nin
My husband is so useless that it's hard for me to be romantic with him. I get down on the floor and say, If you love me, blink your eyes.
~ Phyllis Diller
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
~ John McLaughlin
I don't think that I would ever do serenade to be romantic. You have to have so much balls to do that.
~ Robert Pattinson
To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.
~ Marianne Williamson
I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.
~ Alice Eve
Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.
~ Jamie Bell
I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That's what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
~ Billy Connolly
I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.
~ Rosanne Cash
I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!
~ Luis Gonzalez
I think perhaps I touch on a different passion in people. It's not simple the passion of rock 'n' roll rebellion - it's more romantic than sexual.
~ Steven Morrissey