Quotes About Expression

Language is fossil poetry

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.

Y se expresaron con sus propias palabras, no con las palabras de los demás hombres

The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.

Words so vascular and alive they would bleed if you cut them, words that walked and ran.

when we look in their faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody;

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

you do what you do because that's what the harmony of the universe requires. If I am a potter I make pots

personal expression … book lacks the disciplines of semiology

Create art. Not just an art, but thermo fucking nuclear art.

Style, on the other hand, is the art of bringing your defining individual features to the fore, regardless of what others might expect or find acceptable:

Of all the religions in the world, there is none with the wealth of music that the Christian faith offers.

Dragoste gratuit? nu exist?; dragostea este expresia cea mai costisitoare din lume. Dar lucrul minunat este c? pre?ul ei a fost pl?tit deja.

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

If musicians and artists have no absolutes, they end up caring more about the way the thing is told than about the thing itself, and they slide deeper and deeper till it's their means rather than the ends that matter.

When hard reason fails, leave it to the poets.

Without words life would be inexpressible. Even the best of emotions beg for a verbal expression. That is why the musician reaches not just to the melody but to the romance of language to bring harmony to life.

RecunoÈ™tinÈ›a copleÈ™eÈ™te inima atunci când darul este înÈ›eles, È™i sentimentul miracolului copleÈ™eÈ™te sufletul atunci când recunoÈ™tinÈ›a este pe deplin exprimat?.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

A book is a loaded gun.