Quotes About Expression

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing.

What makes Reddit special is that people feel free to express themselves. Where we want to draw the line is where that feeling of being able to express oneself freely starts to infringe on someone feeling like they can express themselves.

I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like what you want, then it starts to be fun. That's the way I find writing.

I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.

I am confident that as an artist, I will never starve to death.

An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in our own slums.

Artists don't have to starve any more.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when there are people starving? Of course, that's true. But just because you can't, theoretically, defend the arts, or make a sensible argument for their preservation, doesn't mean they're not important.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

I'm basically a starving artist.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.