Quotes About Expression

I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to become too conscious of it.

I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

I try to make the music give people a chance to become engrossed with what they hear enough to possibly experience things they've probably experienced on their own but don't normally let themselves go so as to feel them fully.

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. —Margaret Atwood

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. —Susan Sontag

He expressed by his action his indifference to money but he was not, Harriet now knew, indifferent to the lack of it.

Life is about becoming more of who you really are....

Harbam means that you have unique gifts. Focus on the gifts. Don't focus on the weaknesses, because there are other people who will complement your weaknesses, and you will complement theirs. You recognize the gift when you're expressing yourself in that unique way, giving out your gifts, and you lose track of time.

Your past is not an excuse. But it is an explanation - offering insight into the questions so many of us ask ourselves: Why do I behave the way I behave? Why do I feel the way I do? For me, there is no doubt that our strengths, vulnerabilities, and unique responses are an expression of what happened to us.

You know, it takes a while to develop a voice. But once you have it, you damn sure better use it on stuff that matters.

All of us are seeking the same thing. We share the desire to fulfill the highest, truest expression of ourselves as human beings. —Oprah

What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we have.

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.

Painting taught literature to describe.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

los colores no pueden comprenderse, se sienten.

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Ä°nsan hepsini ayn? anda düÅŸünemiyor ama görebiliyordu. Akl?mdaki kelimelerin, akl?mdaki hayallere yetiÅŸememesi gibi bir ÅŸeydi bu. Kelimeler duygular?ma yetiÅŸemiyor ve yetersiz kal?yorlard?.

El color es el tacto del ojo, la música de los sordos, una palabra en la oscuridad.

To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career.