Quotes About Expression

Being in a band with three guitar players, one thing you need to do is learn to make each guitar voice sound separate and identifiable.

That last record I did, I think I played every guitar on the entire record. I want to do something more fun and exciting.

sometimes it's not so much what the characters saying, but what they r feeling,thinking or doing that is important to an animated feature.

All great literature is about longing. The same is true with music. People can buy anything they want or need at the mall or on line. But they cannot buy what they long for. That is where writers come in. We deliver what people long for.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

Perhaps what he feared most was happening–his imagination had abandoned him, the well had gone dry.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

The wand waved; the Adam's Apple leapt, and they were off. What followed cannot be indicated typographically. But if a cat were a sawmill, and a dog were a gigantic cart full of tin cans bouncing through a stone paved street, and that dog and that cat hated each other and were telling each other so, it would sound much like it.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

In the artist of all kinds I think one can detect an inherent dilemma, which belongs to the co-existence of two trends, the urgent need to communicate and the still more urgent need not to be found....

The difficulty is that average Fours may not know what their feelings are until after they have expressed them personally or artistically. But if they express all that they feel, they fear that they may reveal too much, exposing themselves to shame or punishment.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

You can either love," Pablo says, "or you can talk about it. You can't do both.

Shit," Pablo says.

Why do women love to talk about love?" Giorgio asks. "Why don't men, is more the question," Ana says.

Shut up! We can't hear the mimes! —Jacques Prévert Les Enfants du Paradis