Quotes About Expression

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

I would advocate that you show me your smiling face, and how happy you can make your life.

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

I don't write for a living. I live to write.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired

To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane