Quotes About Expression

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

Life is our dictionary.

If I have only one life . . . let me live it as a blonde.

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

The purpose of art is to stop time.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

Is the cinema more important than life?

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.