Quotes About Expression

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

Desire is possibility seeking expression.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.