Quotes About Expression

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

Dissent is as American as cherry pie.

I don't want to do something just to be on TV. If I did I might as well just go on and put a meat pie on my head! If I go on TV I want to be doing something I want to do.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

My life - it's a piece of work. And my work is a piece of life.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.