Quotes About Expression

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

I thought I was a sexy symbol!

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.

Cannes or Oscars is not only to bring happiness and recognition - they protect people like me. The world knows who you are. You can work. You can express. You can help other people. It's not only the star system. It's a symbol of freedom.

Prateik means symbol so I symbolise certain things in my life.

For me, I can't play a metaphor or a symbol.

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

We have a First Amendment right to burn the flag as symbolic speech. The Constitution protects that right. To spend time and effort on this is ridiculous.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.

The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.

I remember when I was in film school. It was my second year, and some kid did - had this really over-religious symbolism; like, it said 'John 3:16' and had angels falling over, and it was just this insane - it wasn't that great.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

I'm a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.