Quotes About Expression

Body experience... is the centre of creation.

You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions.

With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.

I try to sing and not worry about what's going to happen after I do. I'd add that in my experience, as a person who went to see singers, some people helped me to make some decisions about the world.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

Creativity is the very source and the wonder of your experience.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I'm very much a jazz poet.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.