Quotes About Expression

You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

Self-discovery means learning to live free!

I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff's always my favorite.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value