Quotes About Expression

It don't gotta be Mother's Day, or your birthday, for me to just call and say Hey Mama

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

You could hollow out a big pumpkin and wear it on your head for the entire week of your birthday. This will allow you to get in touch with your Halloween emotions.

I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

Painting is a strange business.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

If Lady Gaga didn't put on all those outfits, she probably wouldn't have made it in show business. She put a show behind her voice.

There are no rules in the entertainment business.

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

One person's tattoo is nobody else's business

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.