Quotes About Expression

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.

Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.

The beard is a statement to say that you can achieve anything, no matter who you are or how you look.

As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

I love strong looks, so to me, no makeup is strong. As long as it makes a statement, that's what I like. The girls look very real, and I'm probably the only makeup artist who will say that I love a woman without makeup.

I love a good statement pant with a great heel and fitted top.

I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

I would rather be an aware citizen, and if an opportunity were to arise where I would have to make a statement, I would happily do that.

It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.

If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?

I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh.

I'm trying to make a big statement - that I'm not just a hook singer.

Some comedy has turned into, 'Donald Trump's bad, isn't he?' That's a true statement. But where is your joke?