Quotes About Expression

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

I want to make a poem of my life.

We have art in order not to die of life.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

When I'm photographing I see life.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life