Quotes About Expression

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

Jazz can accommodate so many things. Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation, and it's connected to everything.

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

I always wanted to be the rockin'est country chick in the universe.

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.

Most solo artists go out on their own and put their name on the record. I prefer to create little alternative universes.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

Part of China's strategic planning is to make their universities among the top level of the world, and I think they understand you can't do that without the adoption of some of the principles of the great universities in the West; one of those is the ability to have free expression and discussion in the classroom.

One doesn't have to sit through exams and go to universities to play rock n' roll.

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.