Quotes About Expression

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

The painting has a life of its own

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.