Quotes About Expression

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That's what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

I hope to touch many Hearts through my music

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.

I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they're taken in the right way. I don't want to stop being free ... and I won't...

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.