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Quotes About Expression

I like being a part of David Cronenberg's world, I feel very at home there
~ Robert Pattinson
Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.Come let us fart in the home.There is no art in a fart.Still a fart may not be artless.Let us fart and artless fart in the home.
~ Ernest Hemingway, 88 Poems
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
~ Seamus Heaney
'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.
~ Chris Cornell
Writing, for me, means humility. It's a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you're writing honestly.
~ Kiran Desai
I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.
~ Graeme Murphy
Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.
~ Elizabeth Sims
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
~ Bruno Mars
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
~ Vaclav Havel
Drawing is the honesty of art.
~ Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.
~ Nikki Sixx
Drawing is the honesty of the art.
~ Salvador Dali
That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
~ Roberta Flack
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
~ Thomas Kretschmann
My balls feel like a pair of maracas.
~ Frank Zappa
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.
~ Tim O'Brien
I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.
~ Scott Kahn
When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me.
~ Michael Johnson
I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.
~ Nikki Sixx