Quotes About Expression

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

I became one of the stately homos of England.

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.

Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character.

Without knowing it, I was acquiring that haughty bearing which is characteristic of so many eccentrics. What other expression would you expect to find on the face of anyone who knows that if he turns his head too quickly, he will see on the faces of others glares of stark terror or grimaces of hatred? Aloofness is the posture of self-defense.

Then my hostess said, "Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man.

Mr Melly had to be obscene to be believed

You first have to find who you are. Then, you have to be it like mad.

You must make small steps into the air of being yourself. Find yourself in an empty landscape, build your character, and then spend the rest of your life demonstrating it.

Drawing is a science, painting is just something for the long winter evenings.

D.H. Lawrence said that it was not living life that mattered but watching it be lived. I would say that it was not watching life that mattered but explaining what you saw.

Later, I met a woman to whom I said, "If all my family had stood around me as a child and said, 'You're wonderful. You're wonderful. You're wonderful.' after an hour I would have complained, 'You're not saying it loud enough.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

All my movies are achingly personal.

He's reading it pretty good, but he's still reading it from the page, and every once in a while he stumbles over his words.