Quotes About Expression

I just think that once you begin to see things the way the camera says is the average way, the way most people want to see them, it can be hard to remember to go back and find your own focus, your own point of view" -Scott

We bury what we don't want to know. And sometimes it comes out in odd ways

When it comes to men, it's often easier done than said.

Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.

If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

If that was a proposal, you really need to work on your delivery.

When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.

Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

lack of affirmation from the men in our lives can make us die inside quietly, unable to feel, to respond, to even voice our pain.

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.

That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. —JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID

She smiled too high, that's what was wrong, and it made deep lines around her nose. We taught her how to bring her smile down and show her lower teeth.

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

Jerk? Is that the best you've got? How disappointing.

I try to be confident, always have, but despite my best efforts, sometimes I come off like I'm a total..." "Dick?" I finished for him. "I'm just randomly picking words out of the air. Tell me if you think I'm close.

Look at you, all Rocky Horror Picture Ho.

So I kept talking because nothing gets me going like knowing I should shut up. Oh, I should be quiet and full of potential like all those still flowers, but I know I am a weed and I've got to blow my seeds around the garden.

What is the reality of a drag queen? my stranger had asked. What indeed? I thought. What is the reality of any identity?

Fitz feels as if he ought to say something, but he's not sure what. He feels a stupid urge to to apologize, for what exactly, he doesn't know. He knows that he says "sorry" a lot.

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective it reminds you to feel.