Quotes About Expression

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

Art comes from life, not from the studio

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic.

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.