Quotes About Expression

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

When singing, you need performing skills and a bit of imagination. You have to treasure the emotions, and to not deviate from the colour of the song while pouring your heart into it.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be 'wrong', which is what our education encourages us to believe.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.