Quotes About Expression

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

If there is one thing I've learned in my short life, it's this: Never repress anything.

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

How do we fight back? By creating art.

A picture is a poem without words

Life is for my own to live my own way.

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to

Life externalizes at the level of our thought.

Life doesn't last, art doesn't last