Quotes About Expression

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

I want everyone to be able to have the same experience through the music as me. It's important to get it out.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you.

All experience helps when you write.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.