Quotes About Expression

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

I never intended to make art.

It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

He talked with more claret than clarity

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.

I worked on my voice for 'Sweet Dreams' but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.