Quotes About Expression

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.

For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.