Quotes About Expression

Così ha cominciato a cercare frasi nei libri che ama, e a trascriverle con la penna stilografica su pezzi di quattro centimetri per due di carta paglierina che poi arrotola stretti e lega con un nastrino rosso.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is the political defense of women hating.

No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.

A Dancer Dosn't Need a Stage Only a Soul

I swear over everything from being woken up in the middle of the night to realizing I've left the wet clothes in the washer for three days. At this point, "fuck" isn't even a swear word anymore; sentences just don't sound right unless it's interspersed somewhere.

You get born as a boy and then you just end up messing everything just to be a girl. In the end, nobody supports you and you die as a miserable no one. End of story."

He looked so pained that I dreamed of taking his hands and making him dance

Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.

My beloved son Thomas did caution, when first I set out to flow this tale upon the world, that although they may not be felt like a fist or a whip, words have a power that can nevertheless cower even the largest man to gibbering tears.

La punteggiatura è come l'elettroencefalogramma di un cervello che sogna - non dà le immagini ma rivela il ritmo del flusso sottostante.

Dance is a place I go to know myself and the world experientially and intellectually.

There were babies, and toddlers, and five-year-old boys in Batman shirts. There was even a little girl dressed as Elsa. For no reason. It's not Halloween. But go ahead, cutie pie, you dress up as Elsa all you want. You do you .

Jesus. I do not wanna be called a vampire n-word.

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their funny money.

This is important, Your Honor, because it establishes the fact that language, like blood, is a living thing that proceeds forward in time.

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he's worth something. And if I know for sure that I'm a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.