Quotes About Expression

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival.

I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing.

There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.