Quotes About Expression

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

I am magnetically drawn to images, whether they're paintings, photographs, film, or video. They are all lodestones of inspiration to me.

I start every dance with a box. I write the project name on the box, and as the piece progresses I fill it up with every item that went into the making of the dance.

We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.

Art is a vast democracy of habit.

Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Many individuals do not buy many books or go to many art museums, but the passion for music is widespread and nearly universal.

Mark Liszewski, executive director of the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum (Hershey, Pennsylvania), remarked: "Instead of Ford versus Chevy, it's Apple versus Android. And instead of customizing their ride, today's teens customize their phones with covers and apps. You express yourself through your phone, whereas lately, cars have become more like appliances, with 100,000-mile warranties.

You don't do design. Design does you

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

All I had to say to anyone that doubted our love was, "Eat your knickers!".

When you care a lot about someone or something, you're more likely to do imperfect things. Ya know, like freak out and yell.

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

In Socrates' time, an orator was accustomed to ask his audience which genre or mode of expression was preferred: myth i.e., narrative-- or logical argumentation? In the age of the book, this decision cannot be left to the audience: the choice must be made in order for the book to exist and one merely imagines (or hopes for) an audience that will have given one answer rather than the other; one also tries to listen to the answer suggested or imposed by the subject itself.

To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man".

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

Wörter können wie Gift wirken. […] "Sie auch hier?" So ein harmloses Sätzchen, das aus einem freundlichen Mund das genaue Gegenteil besagen könnte. Wer das Wort verabreicht und wie, entscheidet über die Wirkung: Gift oder Gabe, Gnade oder Gnadenstoß.

Piaget termed this action logic sensorimotor intelligence, and the three volumes on infancy "form one entity dedicated to the beginnings of intelligence, that is to say, to the various manifestations of sensorimotor intelligence and to the most elementary forms of expression" (OI, p. ix).

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't.

Little things like language don't get in the way of a really good fillum.

To survive, you must tell stories.