Quotes About Expression

Sometimes it's not how much light you use to get an effect, it's how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and you've got to have courage.

Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

I think every woman should have leopard, but not every woman will wear leopard. You have to have courage to wear leopard.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

All art requires courage.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Never bury something deep, baby. Takes twice as much courage to be who you are, say what you think, feel what you feel and let it show then it does to bury it.

Don't see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you're an artist in any way, shape or form.