Quotes About Expression

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

Actions lie louder than words.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

Great artists have no country.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

I've never hit anybody in my life. I never would, and the only way I could make a point was by hurting myself...It's something I've done since I was a teenager.

That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.