Quotes About Expression

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

I've never really had the urge to make an English album.

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?

I adore tattoos. They're not painful; you just get an urge to swear a lot.

The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.

For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there is something tremendously vibrating to achieve there. I need to lose sometimes a consciousness of the person and the reality in order to be happy to come back into the reality and happier to live it for this cause, to be an artist in this life.

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests.

Ever since I was a kid, I had the urge of expressing myself in any way. Like many kids, you want try on different clothes, different looks. I was kinda punky for a while: I had makeup under my eyes. Then I started wearing more baggy stuff.