Quotes About Expression

One does not paint a landscape, a seascape, a figure. One paints an impression of an hour of the day.

Je vais te parler" n'est pas une phrase facile à entendre. On parle, ou on ne parle pas, c'est comme ça. Si on pense à parler, si on avertit qu'on va parler, c'est qu'existe trop fort ce qu'on ne dira pas.

I don't know what to say.' 'That's okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.' 'Like when you're scared?' 'Exactly.' 'Or when you're sad?' 'That too. A voice can be reassuring.

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Le parole che definiscono i sentimenti sono molto vaghe; è meglio evitare il loro impiego e attenersi alle descrizioni degli oggetti, degli esseri umani e di se stessi, vale a dire alla descrizione fedele dei fatti.

Estoy convencido, Lucas, de que todo ser humano ha nacido para escribir un libro, solo para eso. Un libro genial o un libro mediocre, da igual, pero el que no escriba nada es un ser malogrado, que ha pasado por la tierra sin dejar ninguna huella.

Pero yo creo que puedo escribir lo que me dé la gana, aunque sea imposible, aunque no sea verdad.

Je parle le français depuis plus de trente ans, je l'écris depuis vingt ans, mais je ne le connais toujours pas. Je ne le parle pas sans fautes, et je ne peux l'écrire qu'avec l'aide de dictionnaires fréquemment consultés. C'est pour cette raison que j'appelle la langue française une langue ennemie, elle aussi. Il y a encore une autre raison, et c'est la plus grave : cette langue est en train de tuer ma langue maternelle. -L'Analphabète

Smile , nobody cares how you feel

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No'.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

The important thing is that each one feel for himself the specific expressive quality of a theme or, similarly, an entire piece of music. And if it is a great work of art, don't expect it to mean exactly the same thing to you each time you return to it.

As a matter of fact, the experience of most composers has been that the more complete a theme is the less possibility there is of seeing it in various aspects. If the theme itself, in its original form, is long enough and complete enough, the composer may have difficulty in seeing it in any other way. It already exists in its definitive form. That is why great music can be written on themes that in themselves are insignificant.

Music must always flow, for that is part of its very essence, but the creation of that continuity and flow--that long line-- constitutes the be-all and end-all of every composer's existence.

Why a good melody should have the power to move us has thus far defied all analysis.

They use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be used as a soporific. Contemporary music, especially, is created to wake you up, not put you to sleep. It is meant to stir and excite you, to move you—it may even exhaust you.

music is the sound of emotion, expressed through art, from musician to audience.

Unleash Your Creativity. -Aaron Jhinkoo