Quotes About Expression

Break the rules - put a plant or a floral arrangement in a room that you wouldn't expect!

My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

Disco music can only take you so far because it's plastic.

I'm not so interested in perfect, plastic beauty, and I think it translates in the girls I've shot over the years for Nars, from Guinevere to Iris to Mariacarla. I love those girls. I love the more interesting faces, with maybe a strange nose, not just the Texan blonde. By picking those girls, I think it's changed what I've seen in other campaigns.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

When you hold something you created, drew, and conceived, and now here it is in 3D plastic - it is a rush.

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

I don't write Plastic Ono Band stuff, though I love that record.

If someone offers me a hot plate of Penne Arrabiata, fageddaboutit.

You're thinking about a dish, you're thinking about an ingredient, and in many ways, you end up becoming a naked chef in front of the customer, because what you put on the plate is you. It's who you are and where you've been.

Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

The Internet is a free and open platform. Everyone has the right to speak. However, compliance with the law is the bottom line that no one should violate.

We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.

After I left the 'Daily Show,' I was kind of sitting out for five years. I know what it's like to not be able to have that platform for my voice the way I want it.

On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.

The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.

I use music as a platform to express myself. Everything I put out is me, the me I want people to see.