Quotes About Expression

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said what I wanted. I think it must be different for every author; I haven't done very much of it, and perhaps, in a way, I found it rather painful, which is why I don't really do it very often.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.

I never really got the chance to scream about some of the painful things. In the book, I look at my whole life experience, at ego and fame, too.

I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

Its crazy: my name is Artist, and I dead can't even paint.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.