Marley Dias Quotes

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.

As long as what you do reaches out to people, I don't think there's any reason to stop yourself from doing anything.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.

Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

Every time I dance I have a high. I mean every time I danced, it was the whole world was the stage and I was in control of it and there was a form and a ritual and yet it was spontaneous and life didn't matter after that of before

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.