Quotes About Expression

I don't know anything. My trees suck.

I need to study David Petrakis. His actions speak louder than word. I've never heard a more eloquent silence.

I can't believe she gets paid for dreaming up crap like that.

don't call it a period: call it an exclamation point

SOUL, he writes on the board. The clay streaks the word like dried blood. This is where you can find your soul, if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.

Dr. StupidParker says that when I'm sad it really means I'm angry and when I'm angry it really means I'm afraid.

when people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time

HOW does a music lover transform into an actual music maker? What

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

To continue with the analogy, my perspective, my brush technique, my use of colour and shade, are all entirely different from his. The subject is essentially the same; it is the eyes and the hands of the artist that change.

That animated, Hellenistic sculpture with the green eyes...

there is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.

The book was We Walk Alone by Ann Aldrich.

Haiku's such a bore / Sheer pretentious balderdash / Stick it in your hat.

Assuming that the manner in which something is said is often as relevant as its content, I have edited as little as possible, changing sentence structure only when clarity would be otherwise sacrificed, and revising unorthodox spelling on the premise that linotype operators have a difficult enough life as it is.

she sounded like Lizbeth Scott in those Bogart movies. I've always wished I had a voice

Well, that was well before awesome. People who say awesome now wouldn't be born for another thirty years. What's it about, Bern? Colonies on Alpha Centauri? Space ships shooting at each other with lasers?

What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.

There are only three things to be done with a woman' said Clea once. 'You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Words, the acid-bath of words.

i imagine therefore I belong and am free.

Each of our five senses contains an art.

He hablado de la inutilidad del arte, pero no he dicho la verdad sobre el consuelo que procura.

But there are more than five sexes and only demotic Greek seems to distinguish among them.