Quotes About Expression

McKee's a genius. And hillarious. You'll like him, too, Charles. He's all for originality, just like you. He says that we have to realize that we all write in a genre and we must find our originality within that genre. As it turns out, there hasn't been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary. My genre's thriller, what's yours?

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.

Talk without effort is nothing.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

Dressing is a way of life.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.