Quotes About Expression

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

In the 'looks of disappointment' department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.

My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.