Quotes about Expression
Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.
— Marina Abramovic
Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.
— Marina Abramovic
I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.
— Paulo Coelho
Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
— Oprah Winfrey
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
— Oscar Wilde
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
— Steven Pressfield
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
— Washington Allston
If you sing to one person as if you're singing to a million, you will soon have an audience of a million.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.
— Hill Harper
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
— Dolly Parton
My speech impediment wasn't a stutter but it was dropping several letters that I just could not say for several years, most specifically the 'r' sound.
— Amanda Gorman
I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.
— Jimmy Carter