Quotes About Expression

his face serious.

That's bad art, you know. Copying reality without interpreting it." "Mmm. But illusion is not art. It can be a tool for art, but there is nothing of genuine creation in it.

You'd be surprised at how clearly you can hear something in your head and not be able to reproduce it.

sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.

Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

Well, they don't make their music just to pass the time," says Jenny, grinning. "Got to want something to sing about it, no?

That's tree persons in the room now and two of us, that equals five, it's nearly full of arms and legs and chests. They're all saying till I hurt. Stop all saying at the same time.

If you're sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage.

by her family circle. That was my phrase, one that could include me by some stretch of the imagination; 'circle' sounded too symmetrical, but it would have to do.

It occurs to Blanche that English doesn't have French's useful distinction between libre , meaning that something's unconstrained, and gratuit , meaning that it costs nothing. Free thought, free speech, free love: the English word that Arthur was so fond of obscures the price of things.

Mary regretted it a little already. Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writing because I don't know how much longer I can hold on.

I don't want to go to university. I don't like unity and I hate verses. I just love the choruses of songs.

at least my face moves when you look at it. At least I know I'm a fool.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintentionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.

My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out

The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

The spoken word, if hurled forth with eloquence, enthusiasm, and fire, could never be erased from the human soul.

So long as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often succeed in suppressing such manifestations. But when the dumb unrest grows into conscious expression and becomes almost universal, it necessarily affects all phases of human thought and action, and seeks its individual and social expression in the gradual transvaluation of existing values.

But as to free speech," he remarked, "that is, of course, a bourgeois notion. There can be no free speech in a revolutionary period. We

The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.