Quotes About Expression

Music is the place where democracy lives. Every note is equal.

Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.

Religious experiences are meaningless unless they are accompanied by verbal communication that carry intelligible content.

Theology is the systematic study and expression of the teachings of Scripture. It defines and interprets all that a person thinks and does. It ranks above all other necessities (Luke 10:42); no other task or discipline approaches it in significance. Therefore, the study of theology is the most important human activity.

Actions require words to speak for them, explaining their origins and implications, or else they remain silent.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

The follower of fashion can be as honest as the leader of the rebellion against it.

Many Hollywoodians may have good taste and an interest in culture but they certainly hide it. They're afraid they'll be branded as sissies if someone finds out they write poetry or own a painting. They're so timid about culture.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.