Quotes About Expression

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

I never see one woman when I design, it's always a universe of women

Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'

I was such a sponge with music.

Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

I can't lose my spontaneity.

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line.

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

There is spontaneity to my work.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

Making music with other people feeds spontaneity, and lends ideas to your solo work.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.

There's not a lot of creativity when you're dealing with a disability, there's not a lot of freedom and spontaneity.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.