Quotes About Expression

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

I'd rather dance than eat.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.