Quotes About Expression

Any director who's willing to be brave not only in terms of subject matter but also in terms of being emotional and moving you is what inspires me.

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.

I think Gwen, in her lyrics, always touches on personal subject matter.

I know music is subjective.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Just like hair frames our face, brows frame our eyes. I see so much potential in harmonized beauty whenever I see a woman who's not filling in her brows, and I just want to go in with my brow pencil and just be like, 'Filling in eyebrows, OK, done - look in the mirror and be inspired.' That's one of my pet peeves, but beauty is subjective.

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

Fashion is so subjective, and I think it should be playful.

If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.

Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.

Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with my subjective understanding of what it means to be either of those things.

I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it's subjective.

I work from a subjective palette.

What music can do so well is tell the truth in a subjective way.

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.

Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be told, a subjective style.

Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to live unapologetically.

You don't know you've got a hit when you write it - because music is all subjective, you know?