Quotes About Expression

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

For man is by nature an artist.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

You have to choose to manifest your leadership nature.