Quotes About Expression

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing or sitting.

Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.

You don't have a choice about fashion or aesthetics - you're in it, whether you like it or not.

When something's really significant, whether it's good, bad, ugly, I like being able to look back at a moment in time that was high-emotion. Whenever I'm crying I like, weirdly, to document it.

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.

The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.

I feel like this - everybody, every rapper to me, I feel like every rapper got a little bit of E-40 in them, whether they know it or not.

Dance is about portraying and telling a story and whether that be two males, two females, a group of guys, or a group of girls, it doesn't matter as long as the story is beautiful.

I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.