Quotes About Expression

Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.

Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else.

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

He does this on purpose," Stephanie's mother said as they sat in the car, seat belts on and ready to go. They watched him appear at the front door, shrug into his jacket, tuck in his shirt, go to step out, and then pause. "He looks like he's about to sneeze," Stephanie remarked.

He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop." She frowned. "Wait that's not a word.

Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

I thought you wanted me to talk more," he said when he noticed her silence. "Can't have it both ways, Stephanie. I can't be quiet when you want to sulk and chatty when you want to chat. That's not how it works. That's not how I work." "I'm not sulking." "Well, you're doing something with your face that resembles sulking. Are you glowering? You might be glowering. Glowering is like sulking only scarier.

Smash thought the window because doors are for people with no imagination.

Before her mum could start crying, Valkyrie's dad stood up. He cleared his throat, pondered a bit, and then began. "It is no secret that I always wanted a son.

her," he said. "She stares. That's what she does

I am turning murder into an art form. When I – when I kill, I'm actually painting a big, big picture, using blood and, and . . . messiness, you know? – Scapegrace

He tilted his head again, this time at an amused angle. She knew all his angles.

Her dad came down the stairs, picked up the passport and opened it. "This isn't mine," he said. "This belongs to an ugly man wearing a stupid expression.

I don't like your tone." "I don't like your shoes.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.