Quotes About Expression

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.

Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression - to speak, to say who you are.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

People dance at any age.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

Whining is anger through a small opening.

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

A prophet weeps while others are laughing.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.

Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.