Quotes About Expression

I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

I started skateboarding at around age 10, and enjoyed the artistic aspect of it as much as the sporting aspect, so for me it was more of an art form and a lifestyle.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

Now we are living in the age of comics as air