Quotes About Expression

Oh, said Mown, a handy non-committal syllable to have around when you haven't the first clue as to what you are feeling.

Arguing with real people was marginally better than getting upset with sheets of paper.

If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.

Understand what words you use first, then use them.

grammar will tell you how to write; but whether to write or not, grammar will not tell.

I was born to fly wherever I like, to live in the open air, to sing whenever I want. You take all this away from me and then say, "What's wrong with you?

If you're writing to a friend, grammar will tell you what letters you ought to choose, but as to whether or not you ought to write to your friend, grammar won't tell you that.

Life is a piece of music, and you're supposed to be dancing.

Buff: Hey, I've been making these tapes, you know, video tapes. I ripped off a camcorder up at the mall and I thought, you know, it could be something that I do, be a video artist, you know. Tim: Ladies and gentlemen, Buff, the postmodern idiot savant. He will outdo us all.

Tim: I shot my TV.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. -

The most incurably frustrated—and, therefore, the most vehement—among the permanent misfits are those with an unfulfilled craving for creative work. Both those who try to write, paint, compose, etcetera, and fail decisively, and those who after tasting the elation of creativeness feel a drying up of the creative flow within and know that never again will they produce aught worth-while, are alike in the grip of a desperate passion.

Whence come these unreasonable hatreds, and why their unifying effect? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self.

As easy a day as one could wish and no sort of unpleasantness. Still the depression this evening is as black as yesterday. I must face the fact that the chief reason for the depression is that I cannot compose.

what there of is of jazz at its best is heavy stuff: it is small, but made of uranium

Quando gli uomini si trovano di fronte a qualcosa di nuovo che li coglie impreparati, si affannano a cercare le parole per dare un nome all'ignoto, anche quando non possono definirlo né comprenderlo.

Brotha needed to buy a vowel and rent a verb, then get a roll of duct tape slapped on that broken English.

And we all know when a sistuh gets mad, a sistuh gets athletically creative.

You do not want to avoid creating just because creating or the prospect of creating is making you anxious.

Writer's block comes from one's wanting only to write good stuff. Well, the good stuff and the bad stuff are all part of the stuff. No good stuff without bad stuff.

Rothko's paintings consist of strong formal elements such as color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale.

As Rothko was to say about these later works, "A painting is not a picture of an experience. It is an experience.

Until the twentieth century, Western art had traditionally portrayed the world in a three-dimensional perspective, using recognizable images in a familiar way. Abstract art broke with that tradition to show us the world in a completely unfamiliar way, exploring the relationship of shapes, spaces, and colors to one another.