Quotes About Expression

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

Sexuality can be difficult to articulate, and we have to be patient and compassionate.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

When I did the anthem, I did it with the understanding in my heart and mind that I did it because I'm a patriot. I was trying to be a grateful patriot. I was expressing my feelings for America when I did the anthem my way instead of just singing it with an orchestra.

Let me be clear: It's not that I'm not a patriot because I want to keep flag-burning legal, it's that I want to keep flag-burning legal because I am a patriot.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

I'm not much at saying patriotic things.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

The philosophy behind Patreon is that all the great art we have known has been made because of patronage.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

When I first started writing songs, I did play with my fingers, and I had these kind of weird strums. There's, like, three or four strumming patterns that seemed kind of unique to me.