Quotes About Expression

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.

I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.

The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.

I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.

I really believe that the movie will never be as good as the book, both because the book goes on longer - a movie is basically an abridgment of a book - and because books are internal. But they are incredibly powerful. The visual format is, you know, amazing.

Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art.

I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

I was always a visual artist my whole life, and I came to music really late - when I was 21 or 22 was the first time I ever touched a musical instrument. For me, it was always this fun side hobby.

I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.

I don't really care what the visual is looking like. I've gotten away from - not shenanigans, but spectacle.

I am a visual person, given that I am deaf.

My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visual way. And I never have come unravelled.