Quotes About Expression

caricaturists and rodeo clowns be included in that special group of gifted performers?

Haalaat chup kara dete hain insaan ko wagarna bolna sabh ko aata hain

Soch kesi hain emaan kesa hain lafz bata dete hain insaan kesa hain

The truest evidence that any civilization ever leaves behind about itself is its art. Art never lies.

Breasts and bosoms I have known Of varied shapes and sizes From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprises.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

a new suit of overalls has among its beauties those of a blueprint: and they are a map of a working man.

real life means the complete expression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul.

Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is Life, seeking fuller expression.

The clown performs mute rites, as poetry always celebrates some willfully silenced voice.

The courage of his imagination is the temporal and spiritual measurement of every artist.

The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses.

But the poet interprets and rushes to the cosmic expression of his vision, as the clown covers his manhood and disguises his tragedy.

that the work may be defined as the poem of a confession

We can't be direct, so we end up saying the weirdest things.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

We write to make sense of it all.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

It happens that I despise that locution, "having sex," which describes something a good deal more mechanical than making love and a good deal less fun than fucking.

How do I know what I think till I see what I say?

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he's far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can't afford self-doubt and he can't let other people's opinions, even a father's, keep him from writing.