Quotes About Expression

The beauty of music has the ability to speak where words fail.

This was the very reason why we made music: we take something that exists within all of us at our very fundamental core, our emotions, and through our artistic lens, through our creativity, we're able to shape those emotions into reality.

until recently our artists did better than the cave painters.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it's ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

Ah, love, this is fear. This is fear and syllables and the beginnings of beauty.

you'll also notice that inside what is apparently a single line, there is a play of one, two, or three elements, balanced or unbalanced in various ways that are expressive in relation to what the poem is saying.

Allen Ginsberg had the idea that the image in a blues refrain was the American haiku.

One line is a form in the sense that any gesture is a form. Two lines introduce the idea of form as the energy of relation.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

When you are composing a verse, let there not be a hair's breadth separating your mind from what you write. Quickly say what is in your mind; never hesitate a moment.

Don't imitate me; it's as boring as the two halves of a melon.

If the keepers of books, journals, films, compact discs, and software do not vigilantly defend free expression and intellectual freedom, who will?

The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak.

againbite [agenbite] of inwit. James Joyce revived the expression agenbite [againbite] of inwit in Ulysses. it is a good example of Anglo-Saxon replacements of foreign words, meaning the "remorse of conscience" and originally being the prose translation of a French moral treatise (The Ayenbite of Ynwit) made by Dan Michel in 1340.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.