Quotes About Expression

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.

We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.

I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.

I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective.

I am an artist, and I will always be working. But a film should match my personality and should be primarily based on a woman for me to go forward with it.

I am primarily a comedian. Sometimes I also do comedy about my cats. Now unless you find metaphors in cats, there is nothing political about those and I love doing such jokes as much as I love doing political content.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent, so they see the church as a place there for them to meet their needs and to express faith in a way that is meaningful for them.