Quotes About Expression

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.

As in many other industries, the luxury fashion consumer increasingly desires to put a personal stamp on important purchases.

I must admit, I don't try to put my stamp on anything; it just happens. I don't really know how to think another way.

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

I just want to put my stamp on all kinds of music. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street-based, street-oriented.

Some people collect stamps; I like fashion, discovering nice new things. I feel good about doing that.

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

I wouldn't say even that I'm a broadly political person. But on occasion, I have felt that I have no choice but to paint something with a strong moral stance.

I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone's dressed down. So actually, putting on a jacket is the anti-Establishment stance.

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

When the show starts, I am in my SpongeBob stance, and I walk like SpongeBob, and the first step that I take, I am SpongeBob.

When I get the opportunity to do what I love while also taking a stance on things I believe in, it's a very beautiful thing.

I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

My long hair and the sideburns made me stand out, really, because my hairstyle was completely different to the other footballers of that era.

I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.

I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.

I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.