Quotes About Expression

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Il nostro movimento avrà questo compito: darà al singolo ciò di cui ha bisogno per vivere. Ciò troverà la sua espressione in una graduazione dei meriti tale da garantire, anche all'ultimo onesto lavoratore, una normale esistenza

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from the lavatory pan to the ashtray. On the contrary, I like people to move their furniture so that it suits them (not me!), and it's quite natural (and I approve) when they bring the old pictures and mementos they have come to love into a new interior, irrespective of whether they are good taste or bad.

Hejsek je ?lov?k, jemuž slouží oblek jen k tomu, aby se od svého okolí co nejvíce lišil

L'architecture éveille en l'homme des états d'âme.. La tâche des architectes est de préciser ces états d'âmes.

The happiness visible in the eye of the thinker is the happiness of mankind. The universal tendency towards suppression goes against thought as such. Such thought is happiness, even where unhappiness prevails. Thought achieves happiness in the expression of unhappiness. Who ever refuses to permit this thought to be taken from him, has not resigned.

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply. Just as in the ceremony the magician first of all marked out the limits of the area where the sacred powers were to come into play, so every work of art describes its own circumference which closes it off from actuality.

In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.

He maintains a stony expression rivalling the heads of Easter Island.

I hate it when she quotes Scripture. Who can talk back to the Bible?

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.

Unlike everything else in these pages, my sketchbook was never intended for any sort of publication. In fact, it was never really meant to be seen by anyone. It's the closest thing I have to a diary, and it exists mainly for my own amusement, practice and mental health.

prison for writing seditious articles, and made use of

but they agreed on one thing at least: that there is an inverse relationship between being well turned out and having something to say. Rand talked about people whose careers "depend on keeping faces bland, remarks inconclusive and clothes immaculate".

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker or an actor is the ability to take risks, and the ability to tell stories that might not otherwise be told.

As an actor, you have to be open to the experience, and you have to be willing to take risks and be vulnerable.

I'm telling you this because you didn't ask. I've got it all here, growing like a tumor in my throat. I'm telling you because if I don't, I will choke on it. Everybody knows what happened, but nobody asks. And Elvis the EMT doesn't count because when he asked, he didn't even listen to me answer because he was listening to my sister's heart not beat with his stethoscope. I want to tell. It's mine to tell. Even if you didn't ask, you have to hear it.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.