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Quotes About Expression

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
~ George Gordon Byron, Don Juan
Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.
~ Lady Gaga
When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear
~ Assata Shakur
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
~ Edvard Munch
Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.
~ Roger Scruton
Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.
~ Svetlana Zakharova
Do anything, but let it produce joy.
~ Walt Whitman
Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.
~ Hideaki Anno
I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.
~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
~ Marcel Duchamp
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
~ George Gordon Byron
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
~ E. M. Forster
You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.
~ Stella Adler
Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life
~ Fernand Leger
If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.
~ Jackie Kennedy
The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
~ Jane Fonda
Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
~ Anais Nin
Songs are life in 80 words or less.
~ Neil Diamond
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
~ Franz Marc
My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.
~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
~ Voltaire
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
~ George Eliot