Quotes About Expression

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry.

People like Nick Cave - that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes - I find it uplifting because it's like someone else is feeling what you're feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it's just the fact that they're expressing their soul through music.

For me, there's nothing more valuable as an actor, or better way to learn, than getting to perform in front of a live audience, no matter where you are. Whether it's on Broadway, in Florida, or doing a tour.

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.

Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add.

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.

If I didn't find art valuable, I would stop doing my work and only work for justice.

I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.

Freedom of opinion is a valuable asset in a democracy.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.