Quotes About Expression

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

Art is an emotional experience

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.