Quotes About Expression

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

Fear and creativity don't mix well.

Creativity comes from constraint.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.