Quotes About Expression

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

Writing is making sense of life.

Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.