Quotes About Expression

There are plenty of reasons why I write. This is just one of them. The sense that I want to own something, own my work, own my creativity, own my name. It is perhaps not the purest reason, not truest of heart, for there is some ego attached to it. But it is real.

It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.

I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!

People think copywriters are obsessed with words. This isn't correct. The word should be 'infatuated' - it fits the context better.

Gender identity belongs to the person who lives it, but one cannot deny that observers will make assumptions about us based on their understanding or comprehension of gender signals.

All art moves between the extremes.

When Louise worried bout something, it often turned up in her art.

How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois

It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some way invading their domain. Therefore the work was hidden away." -Louise Bourgeois

She doesn't attend gallery openings or apear at art-world parties. "People need to see the work. It's more me than my physical presence.

Asked if she was a feminist, Louise said she wasn't sure, but she was a woman--her art couldn't help reflecting that.

The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, the more I become an artist, creator, in this revival of the arts.

What troubled Father Henri was that Arn's apparently unwarranted worries might actually be expressing something else, a great loneliness.

To make a photo from what we see is easy, but to create a realistic photo and show others what we have in our mind is a completely different story.

to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot of people and give them a shock.

The art of Life is to be Ourselves.

I cannot write the way some persons want to read my writings, my thoughts of mind do the job.

Life is the art from our inner feeling.

My work is awfully labored just now. Sometimes it has the most wondrous life of its own, it fairly pulls me along—rather like wind surfing! At other times, it drags and mopes, so that I despair of ever writing another word or drawing another picture. I've found that if one keeps pushing along during the mopes, out will flash the most exhilarating thought or idea—a way of doing something that I had never seen before—and then, one is off again, and hold on to your hat!

He was used to her tears. They were a kind of language that needed expression.

Professor Morgan had called [Dooley] 'a lad of few words.' That wasn't true. There were words spilling around in him all the time. Too many words. His problem was organizing them.

Love shall be our token

came pouring out, nor had he ever heard anything like it; it was so clear

sometimes there have been moments when I have perfectly understood the self-portrait called Man Screaming which Egon Schiele painted after his return from Trieste to Vienna, and it has dawned upon me what a nightmare hiatus we all pass through, on the way from birth to death. Surely the only logical response would be to stand on a bridge and scream? But no, self-deception sees us through.