Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and captured form.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.

The heart of another is a dark forest.

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

I wear clothes reflecting the color of my soul!

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.

What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don't believe, that's all there is to see,you'll never know the real me.

Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold.

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

There is more that meets the eye, I see the soul that is inside.

There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that energy I think that such a thing as dance becomes such a delight because you're moving on a stream that is you but it is even over and beyond you.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.