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Quotes About Expression

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.
~ Jim Elliot
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.
~ Jimmy Fallon
A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.
~ John Baldessari
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.
~ John Marin
Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
~ John Ray
May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
~ Kate DiCamillo
If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.
~ Kathe Koja
Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.
~ Katy Perry
Leaders who aren't conduits are either dams of dry.
~ Johnathan Key
Your message is only as loud as the actions that accompany it. Live your message and it will be heard loud and clear.
~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck
Closed mouths, only lead to closed gates. Share your salvation!
~ Anthony Liccione
Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.
~ Ron Brackin
Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
~ Massimo Vignelli
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.
~ Frankie Manning
You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.
~ Constantin Stanislavski
I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
~ Jimmy Page
Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
~ Henri Matisse
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
~ Jimi Hendrix
I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
~ Helmut Newton
For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
~ Tori Amos
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
~ Cole Porter
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
~ Mos Def
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
~ Mary Schmich