Quotes About Expression

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

I think there's a value in people talking, it's just that we're in this culture now where everyone wants to 'out' each other at every moment, for their unconscious bias or whatever, and people then don't feel free to just talk. Do you know what I mean?

Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

I don't want to work with directors who use music only to accentuate sound effects. I want to work with people who give music the value it deserves.

Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance of talking in a few words.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.

Democrats need to value free speech and we should not be intimidated into giving an inch of it away.

For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?

The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.

Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them.

Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

Bollywood songs are losing their poetic value.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

I feel like all my films have my politics. As a film-maker, whatever story you're telling, your value system comes out.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.