Quotes About Expression

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

Language is the square hole we keep trying to jam the round peg of life into. It's the most insane thing we do.

Shitfire, parson! And I mean thet sincerely!

Vic remembers well the admonitions he received as a boy. Any gift or favor to him quickly resulted in a thank-you note, always on off-white paper and always written in black ink.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

When I speak, I speaks.

A Token" My lady fair with soft arms, what can I say to you—words, words as if all worlds were there.

The Token" My lady fair with soft arms, what can I say to you—words, words as if all worlds were there.

Romania was an original mix: a population that looked Italian but wore the expressions of Russian peasants; an architectural backdrop that often evoked France and Central Europe; and service and physical conditions that resembled those in Africa.

The right to free speech does not give you the liberty to talk slander

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

John Cleese, in a clever, funny talk he gave on creativity years ago, said you also need a sense of humour if you want to be creative. You can't manufacture a sense of humour, but if you don't have one, then you might indeed be better off reporting facts. Art is not about reporting.

But life isn't about finding yourself or finding anything, Dylan said, it's about creating yourself.

scowling like he'd received Botox injections while constipated.

he was scowling like he'd received Botox injections while constipated.

Devin swears like a sailor with Tourette's?

And, Vera . . ." "Yeah." "I want you to know that I love you. I know you know, but I want you to hear me say it. And I know you told me not to start apologizing, but I'm sorry I haven't told you that more often.