Quotes About Expression

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

The reality I submerse myself in when writing, is far greater than the physical reality surrounding me at work!

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.

I never wanted to express my independence by dressing in a particularly masculine way or appear particularly boyish.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world

I too am a government.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.

The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'.

There is no such thing as an "independent artist". All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

With so much "Moos" from the herd, how you gon' get heard?

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.