Quotes About Expression

I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.

That's what I look for in models: Someone who can tell a story and has a presence in front of the camera.

People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know?

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

I always like to give and present my actors in a different look.

Whether it be a bolder lip, a dewier cheek, a more lush lash, or an exceptionally extravagant eye, no time is better than the present for unleashing your cosmetic creativity.

The entertainment is in the presentation.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

Every generation brings its own presentation of what hip-hop is to them.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'

The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presentation of it, so that the audience is part of the creation and not just part of the consumption. Then it becomes much more full-bodied and robust.

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.

I believe that everyone who is human is androgynous, but I don't think there are a lot of people that are presented as truly androgynous.

I'd done performance art sporadically from about 1976 - very personal street things on my own. Acting seemed like a natural step from that. But I didn't really want to 'be' anything: presenter, comic, actor. I just wanted to perform.

Jokes for jokes' sake are kind of meaningless to me. I understand the value of them, but it doesn't speak to me as much. You can lace your argument with jokes, but tell me why you're presenting this argument. What does it mean?