Quotes About Expression

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.

It's an honor to paint cats.

Music is one of the most amazing things to me and it's an honor to connect with people through it.

Art is the highest form of hope.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

I really hope that when someone puts my record on that they hear me.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

I hope people can see us SHINee, who are doing what we can do now, as we are.

I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take.

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.