Quotes About Expression

I paint. I love the visual arts.

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.

Every now and then, I like to take a break from the visual arts and play a few songs on guitar. I don't play them for anyone.

Ever since I can remember, I drew, and visual arts have been my main way to express myself. I like dancing, although I've never done that very seriously. It's something I'd like to explore more.

When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we emigrated to Australia from Holland when I was seven, I learnt the English language, and I fell in love with it.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together.

The more film festivals, theatrical shows, and music performances and visual arts we have, the less chances there are for war. Art is hope, and it is found in hope, and that's why we need to share our experiences and cherish art.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

If I wanted an open space, I could do a documentary about fishes. Then I would have an open space to play my music. That's not how I visualize the work I'm doing.

It's really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you wanted it to.

I listen to everything that sounds good with a story. I even listen to Adele. I listen to all kinds of music. Everything with a story that I can listen to and close my eyes and visualize it. I just love music.

Sometimes I fantasize about becoming a cartoon and only making music for cartoons. I can easily visualize my future in music when I go into that fantasy in my head.

I visualize songs like a little movie scene and I try to almost talk through the scene. What emotions am I trying to get across?

All I am trying to do is communicate a story that I can visualize in my head, into something better for the audience. If that means paying attention to detail then that's what I will do.

You don't have to understand Korean to understand the music, the visuals, the vibe.

We are aiming to create a new genre with a new style in terms of visuals and sound. A mixture of dance and metal which strays away from the traditional or conventional metal band.

Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.