Quotes About Expression

We do not ask the trees to teach us moral lessons, and only the Salvation Army feels it necessary to pin texts upon them. We know that these texts are ridiculous, but many of us do not yet see that to write an obvious moral all over a work of art, picture, statue, or poem, is not only ridiculous, but timid and vulgar. We distrust a beauty we only half understand, and rush in with our impertinent suggestions.

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

Words often outlive the people who create them.

Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

Oy with the poodles already!

Did he have Ruscha so he could pronounce "Ruscha"?

She loved the way you could transform the meaning of a scene with how you played it.

I'd always felt that one could read a woman's discontent in the amount of embroidery in her sitting room. It gave me a crowded and nervous feeling to sit among so much frantic stitchery.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

You can do what you like to a writer if you don't mind being put in a book.

the liberal believes in freedom in all areas except for his criticism.

Poetry is dancing with words.

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

Jazz is the music of the body

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.