Quotes about Expression
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
— Julian Casablancas
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
— John Updike
Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
— Dorothy Day
New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
— Natalie Portman
I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.
— James Franco
It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.
— Jennifer Aniston
The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.
— El-P
I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.
— Miranda Otto
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson