Quotes About Expression

As the boy's vacant eyes moved across the crowd of amused onlookers, he slowly mirrored their smiles and finally broke into an uncertain grin at the joke which he did not understand. I felt sick inside as I looked at his dull, vacuous smile – the wide, bright eyes of a child, uncertain but eager to please, and I realized what I had recognized in him.

As long as the writer, or any artist for that matter, keeps his mouth shut, there can be argument and discussion and various interpretations and meanings. But once the writer explains or analyzes, he trivializes his own work.

a lifestyle for creatures capable of poetry, philosophy, music, dance, mythology, art, and invention on a wide technological front.

Nothing in this world compares to writing and being read.

Love, she thought, he'd typed love just as she had. A multifacedted word, love , there probably wasn't another word in this or any other language that had so many shades and degrees. She knew that he loved her and she loved him, just as she loved Adam and Adam loved her. But with love, theirs or his, it was always a question of degree, and what one was willing to do to express that degree.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

I wanted to design clothes to help build confidence.

If I had more confidence, I would rock a crop top.

All my early lyrics were about confidence.

Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

We didn't grow up in a creative family.

I don't fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don't think it's particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had to write a little essay, and you had to incorporate three particular words into the story. That was the sole direction. And to me, this was so much fun.

Facebook needs three buttons, "Like", "Dislike" and "Stop being stupid."

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

Every time I say I love you I mean it more than the last time.

It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' at the end of it. Like, 'I love you… man.' You just can't look at another man and say, 'I love you.'

I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

If rain drops were kisses, I'd send you showers. If hugs were seas, I'd send you oceans. And if love was a person I'd send you me!