Quotes About Expression

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life

Graphic expression is the artist's impression...

Graphic is a expression of the impression. So make the best of it!

El licor, la música, la pintura y la poesía de nuestros cuerpos desnudos, tenían la prioridad

Que letra tan fea! Dijo papá un día disgustado. En todo caso, el único que podía leer aquellos poemas era yo, esa era mi intensión.

Pero, ¿Escribir sobre qué? buena pregunta.

Es mi deseo aprovechar este maravilloso espacio en blanco de la hoja de papel

The human body is the best work of art.

Audrey tilted her head. "You are an idiot, Evan. An idiot. There, now I have spoken to

And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.

Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Roth wrote The Breast . Would you ask him how he could do this since he had never been a breast? Adams wrote Watership Down . Would you ask him how he could do this since he admitted his rabbit knowledge came from a book about rabbits? ... And those hobbits!... I am a bigger risk-taker than these others. The Hoosiers can contradict me. No rabbit, hobbit, or breast has been known to speak up in reply to their exploiters.

And so well did they hide themselves in their love that grass grew over their hearts and all their loud songs became indecipherable ribbons of air.

Much of the speech we do is largely meaningless and is just meant to communicate and validate small emotional contracts.

My wife wrote me letters when we first met. We would meet every day, or nearly every day, but still she would write me letters. She thought the person she was in her letters was someone she herself did not know until the letter was written, and then it was like she was meeting herself.

a name is almost always a sort of cowardice---an attempt to confine a thing to being only what it is, rather than what it may be.

She explained crying to him. He said that it felt very good. In his opinion, it was almost the same as laughing. She said that many people believe it is the same.

Of silence, I can say only what I heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave–and so speech isn't itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.

Of silence, I can say only what I have heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave-and so speech isn't itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.