Quotes About Expression

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith

Accept your genius and say what you think.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Your voice can change the world.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.