Rex Stout Quotes

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Art is the skin of the soul.

When movement isn't enough, you dance, or when speaking isn't enough, you sing. When it's organic, and it's earned like that in a musical, that's when it works, and then there's nothing like it because it's this thing that takes you to a whole 'nother level, you know?

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

I play very, very emotional. That's just my style.

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.

Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

All drama teachers are very effusive, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical. Those people don't work in banks and they don't work for pharmaceutical companies. They teach drama, or they may be theatre directors. That's why I love people who are openly gay in theatre, because they have license to do what they like, and there's a kind of artistic liberal tolerance thing that goes on.

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.