Quotes About Expression

A nadie le importan los libros, por eso puedes escribir lo que te dé la gana en ellos. A la gente le importan las normas.

Only a stupid person would say that. Well, and yet I've just said it. Yes.

I can paint that fucking cave.

Why don't you like it when you can't say why?

I consider my novels, amongst many other things, to be my political activism.

Mozart's pet starling once revised a phrase he wrote. The bird sang it after he played it on the piano, but changed all the sharps to flats. Mozart described it happening in the margin of the score. 'That was beautiful!' he wrote. When the bird died, he sang at its funeral, and read a poem to it.

When you had the world and your body as canvases, why deal in squares of wallpaper?

in certain senses the transnationals were expressions of these nations—extensions of their power into the rest of the world, in a way that reminded Sax of what little he knew of the imperial and colonial systems that had preceded them. Frank had said something like that: colonialism had never died, he used to declare, it just changed names and hired local cops. We're all colonies of the transnats.

Exergasia' means 'use of different phrases to express the same idea,' 'synathroesmus' means 'accumulation by enumeration,' and 'incrementum' means 'piling up points to make an argument.' So listing them does all three, yes?

If it was 200 Kelvin outside why not say so, rather than talk about witches' tits and the like

Art is not truth. Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth. said Picasso

Luông mang bên mình khát khao khám phá, tìm hi?u, th? hi?n trong t?ng công vi?c

You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation.

To write things down as luck wasn't the same as writing them off as non-existent or in some way beneath consideration.

Should poets bicycle-pump the human heart Or squash it flat? - a Bookshop Idyll

The bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation, Dixon thought. 'You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation', he said.

No indeed, poems were not made out of intentions.

There have been so many times I felt like I've ended the conversation lately I've decided that if I had a Wu Tang name it'd be Threadkilla.

Boys love hitting each other in the face. I guess it's the next best thing to a kiss.

In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its opposite, which is ambiguity and multi-valence.

Dattebayo! (Do you get what I am saying?!)

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.

Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)

Du er ogsaa Kunstnersjæl, Skønaand, en Smagens Mand, et Artistgemyt,en Bohême, en Satan. Men du er ogsaa Poet. Fan ved hva du er altsammen, du er meget spredt.