Quotes About Expression

If the poet says that he can inflame men with love, which is the central aim in all animal species, the painter has the power to do the same, and to an even greater degree, in that he can place in front of the lover the true likeness of that which is beloved, often making him kiss and speak to it. —LEONARDO DA VINCI, Notebooks

Avery important change that has yet to be made is the time we transgenders are no longer called 'sex changes'. After all, consider this: we are NOT CHANGING anything! Indeed, we are merely CORRECTING pronouns, names, manner of dress, hormones and less to MATCH what has always been in our brains...

Straight people, like gay or transgendered people, have complex and multifaceted gender identities.

to be an artist is to assert one's will, but to be a woman is to relinquish it.

painting was not so much an art movement as a mission to free people from material concerns.

his hands got in the way of his art, preventing him from recording sensation as quickly as he experienced it.

the poetry lies in the crude handling of the paint rather than in the subject matter.

Thus conversational signals can get crossed when well-intentioned speakers have different habits and expectations about using pacing and pausing, loudness, and pitch to show their intentions through talk—

We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood—heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant.

Yet another man commented that women seem to wallow in their problems, wanting to talk about them forever, whereas he and other men want to get them out and be done with them.

When we think we are using language, language is using us.

deflating like a stuck balloon. She couldn't help but watch as they looked into

Un adev?rat artist nu abandoneaz? niciodat? frumuse?ea

In my experience, I've noticed that waiting on tables is one of two things that almost everyone thinks they can do. The other is writing. Perhaps it's no accident that there is only one letter of difference between waiter and writer.

You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. Jessica - Age 8

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Happiness is a message not a look.

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt. pg 1.

for journalists words are simply tokens to be arranged and rearranged indifferently. But for an artist there can be only one ideal order.

Our national poet WB Yeats said that every Irish writer had a decision to take: whether to express Ireland or exploit it. In his day, the choice lay between expressing the nation to itself or exploiting it for the amused condescension of a mainly overseas audience. Holding a mirror up to the people was a risky business: many, seeing an unflattering image, were inclined to smash the glass in anger.

someone who fulfils a role in society as a producer of artefacts and activities which confront death by telling us we are alive.

We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken.

words are what give us power, that without words we are nothing, we do not exist.