Quotes About Expression

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

I'm a lot more focused on character development and showing more of my character's emotions and persona inside the ring rather than just going move after move after move.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.

If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.

I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

When I first started, I had a mullet, and I was trying to play a hillbilly persona. While it was fun, it wasn't me.

The street-wear and the very androgynous tomboyish girl, that's just not this new persona I'm introducing... it's me 24/7.

There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very few listeners, so that man can only, as it were, chatter on in the void when he pours out his confessions: he squanders his 'truths', as the sun does its light. - Isn't it rather a pity that the void has no ears?

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

Sei capace di dipingere dèi ed eroi, cittadino pittore? è un'assemblea di eroi quella che ti chiediamo. Dipingili come dèi o come mostri, o anche come uomini, se te ne viene l'estro. Dipingi Il Grande Comitato dell'anno II . Il Comitato di salute pubblica. Fanne quello che vuoi: santi, tiranni, briganti, principi. Ma mettili tutti insieme, in una bella riunione di famiglai, come fratelli.

aujourd'hui encore, l'allemand, l'alsacien et le français se disputent dans ma tête et brouillent mon élocution ; aujourd'hui encore, je me déplace avec un dictionnaire allemand-français dans mes affaires.

if there be some points which correspondence can never settle, but which can be made clear by conversation in two minutes, at other times just the opposite is the case: an objection clearly stated in writing, a doubt well expressed, which elicits a direct and positive reply, helps things along more than ten hours of oral intercourse!

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein's theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say- for the thousandth time- what's easier done than said.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Words have a longer life than deeds.