Quotes About Expression

the music expressed life and explained it and left you having to ask again.

Each person if he was lucky found the place where he could shine, and the person he could shine on. At Cranley Gardens Johnny had been audience, to Evert, to Ivan, to the whole clever, memoir-swapping gang. But with Pat he was a closely attended performer - he was funny, almost articulate, and rich in things worth saying.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A

Henry Wallace: "The idea of freedom . . . is derived from the Bible with its extraordinary emphasis on the dignity of the individual. Democracy is the only true political expression of Christianity."39 And Christianity is the only genuine source and sustainer of democracy

And when he refused to tell her he loved her after having sex, she broke all the dishes until her arms bled and the medics took her away. And he sat and blew Arabesques of smoke.

Words. Empty words. Sometimes I hate words. Sometimes they fail human experience. Sometimes words are a way to avoid the truth.

And when he refused to tell her he loved her after sex, she broke all the dishes until her arms bled and the medics took her away. And he sat and blew Arabesques of smoke.

Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

I should have written books instead of reading them.

T]he truth is I write by ear, always with difficulty and seldom with any exact notion of what is taking place under the hood.

Everybody has their story to tell.

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.

It's not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn't be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.

Give me a platform of ideas and harmonies on which to gesture and unfurl my wings. Give me a place to stand.

You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

One colour. One word. So many shades. The color of african skin, of shadow on snow, of a jay's throat, the color of saxophones at dusk, of orbiting police lights smeared across tenement windows, of a flame's intestines, of the faint tracery of veins visible beneath the ghost-flesh of her forearm's underside, of loneliness, of melancholy. The blues.