Quotes About Expression

I am singing now while Rome burns.

It should be enough. To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn't. It should be.

When you paint an evil thing, do you invoke it or take away its power?

If the dead are watching, I want them to see us writing, dancing, singing, painting. I want them to see that we still reach out to each other.

When you have nothing to say, set something on fire. A blurry landscape is useless.

I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

Pain makes a noise.

There's a part in the movie where you can see right through the acting, where you can tell that I'm about to burst into tears, right before I burst into tears.

You keep singing along to that song I hate. Stop singing.

It's hard to talk about what you believe while you are believing it. Fervor reduces thought to shorthand and all we get is an icon.

smiling in a way that made me frightened.

This is where he trots out his sadness. Little black cloud, little black umbrella.

You said I could have anything I wanted, but I just couldn't say it out loud.

Something has happened in the paint tonight and it is worth keeping.

Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future.

there's no pure way to say it.

his skin barely keeping him inside.

sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud.

but you say the same thing every time. Let's not talk about it, let's just not talk.

you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn't do

Forget about his insides, his plumbing and his furnaces, put a thing in his hand and be done with it. No one wants to know what's in his head. It should be enough. To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn't. It should be.

The hand is a voice that can sing what the voice will not

I put on my best shirt because the painting looked so bad. Color bleeds, so make it work for you. Gravity pulls, so make it work for you. Rubbing your feet at night or clutching your stomach in the morning. It was illegible - no single line of sight, too many angles of approach, smoke in the distance. It made no sense. When you have nothing to say, set something on fire. A blurry landscape is useless.

There's a part in the movie where you can see right through the acting, where you can tell that I'm about to burst into tears