Quotes About Expression

There's definitely a Leos Carax universe that he has created in his films; we've done something similar with our music and lyrics. He's a pretty uncompromising filmmaker and we feel the same way.

We are so proud of 'Unconditional'. I couldn't have been more honest in these songs, and I can't wait to see the impact they have. This record is exactly what it's supposed to be.

A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

I certainly think, obviously, rhythm is a huge part of being an actor. It just is unconscious, to a degree, but particularly in comedy, rhythm is pretty essential, and there's probably something more physiological going on.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if I'm inspired by the results.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from.

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.

How art works is really interesting. It comes from our unconscious, a lot of it. And were communicating in ways were not completely aware of when were making it.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

In 'The Darkest Minds,' Zu's trauma manifests in her choosing to remain silent. It's her one small way she can feel in control of her otherwise uncontrollable situation.

That's the power of music, a key sequence or a chord sequence or even a note can do something to you physically that's uncontrollable.

Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.