Quotes About Expression

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

I like to make collages - paper collages.

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

It's just nice to see something from paper come to life on the screen.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

'Ghost City' began as a idea. I felt that I hadn't read or heard a great deal about the sort of life that I thought I had, and I just thought that it would be interesting to sit down and see if I could put it down onto paper.