Quotes About Expression

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

I had a very sexual experience onstage once. But I won't go there.

There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music

With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience.

I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.

Every book is a unique experience.

When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.