Quotes About Expression

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.

It's real difficult to sing out in the elements at 2 in the morning in 35-degree weather while you're dancing in a sleeveless chiffon dress.

My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock.

My concept is not bigger than Weather Report. I am Weather Report. It comes through me; I do not create nothing. It comes from being a child and listening to the radio every day of my life.

It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.

I grew up just outside New York City in a very white town. In seventh grade, I got called Macy Gray. It really affected me, so I got a weave and wore my hair straight.

Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Web series is an outing that is favourable to actors.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.

Web series are a way forward. It is a space where creative minds can express themselves without the fear of censor board.

I believe that a web series allows actors the freedom to express their views.

In the old world, people used to have to go to focus groups and ask people what they thought. Now, people are writing all over the Web what they think about things.

If I want to shoot my daily look, I just put it on Instagram - not on the Web site.

I love the idea of web design that maximises expressiveness over functionality.

My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.