Quotes About Expression

Milagre da literatura, quando é verdadeira.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

Fashion can be an emotional experience.

On ne peut pas faire un art qui parle aux masses quand on n'a rien à leur dire, mais nous luttons ensemble, nous voulons faire une autre vie ensemble, et nous avons tout à nous dire.

Vorbele sunt oglinda gandurilor pe care le nutresti.

But, of course, of course, I imitated everyone! Except myself. -- Pablo Picasso

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

Bir zamanlar kimi modalar kad?nlar?n bedenini erkeklerin gözlerinden bütünüyle gizleyerek kabar?k bir giysiye de?er katt??? gibi duygular?n kapal?l??? da, tutkular?n al???lm?? belirtilerini perdeleyerek dilin fark edilmez inceliklerinin de?erini ve güzelli?ini ortaya ç?kar?r.

Man, strip off thy garments, cover thy head with ashes, run into the streets and dance in thy madness.

Bueno-explicó-(¿Qué más desea el lector:¿Explicó?¿Contó?¿Dijo?¿Musitó?¿Interecedió?¿Requirió?¿Sibiló?, esta última palabra para enriquecer el conocido y monotonísimo axioma del fanfarrón y pseudovanguardista J.COrtázar. ¡Ah, los caminos sin fin de la vana literatura!)

La música es cada uno de esos pedacitos que antes tuve en mí y los fui desprendiendo al azar. Yo estoy ante una cosa y pienso en miles. La música es la solución a lo que yo no enfrento, mientras pierdo el tiempo mirando la cosa: un libro (en los que ya no puedo avanzar dos páginas), el sesgo de una falda, de una reja. La música es también, recobrado, el tiempo que yo pierdo.