Quotes About Expression

Toda imagen estética está superada por las imágenes posibles que suscita, que abre. Sin embargo, no podría manifestarse ningún desvarío, porque la experiencia tiene lugar sobre y en el objeto.

La creatividad significa saber quiénes somos. Es jazz sin música, es un flujo de energía. Ser creativos es ser valientes

No cierres mis labios abriendo los tuyos.

By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

Não pertenço àquela laia de maus escritores que dizem escrever apenas para si mesmos. As únicas coisas que os autores escrevem para si próprios são listas de compras, que os ajudam a lembrar-se do que precisam adquirir, e podem ser descartadas. Tudo o mais, incluindo o rol de roupas para lavar, são mensagens endereçadas a outrem. Não são monólogos, mas diálogos.

By studying the human signifying activity it influences its course.

Ahora bien, aun siendo estos casos virtuosos, como nos recuerda Brecht, también el odio hacia la injusticia desencaja el rostro.

Pictura est laicorum literatura, ? ????????? ????? ? ?????????? ??? ????? ????????.

Siz gülmeye gülüyorsunuz, ama gene de gülüyorsunuz.

La cultura è un'alternanza continua tra la libera presa di parola e la critica di questa presa di parola.

formal semantics has sought to expand a logic of truth conditions so as to recognize the legitimacy of metaphorical expressions - expressions that speak about the world by lying.

It is necessary to create constraints, in order to invent freely.

rather than giving out information someone would be able to check, it's better to limit yourself to insinuation.

the best ideas may not come from the major authors.

Opera aperta (The open work), published in 1962, the first of Eco's books on a modern topic and the work with which he made his name in Italy.

You are not Proust. Do not write long sentences. If they come into your head, write them, but then break them down. Do not be afraid to repeat the subject twice, and stay away from too many pronouns and subordinate clauses.

Begin new paragraphs often. Do so when logically necessary, and when the pace of the text requires it, but the more you do it, the better. Write everything that comes into your head, but only in the first draft.

Yazar, yazd?ktan sonra ölmelidir. Metnin gidiÅŸini bozmamak için.

But sometimes you have to speak because you feel the moral obligation to say something, not because you have the 'scientific' certainty that you are saying it in an unassailable way.

hay dos clases de poetas: los buenos, que queman sus poemas a los dieciocho años, y los malos, que siguen escribiendo poesía mientras

Literature says something and, at the same time, it denies what it has said; it doesn't destroy signs, it make them play and it plays them. If and whether literature is liberation from the power of the given language depends on the nature of this power.

La letteratura, contribuendo a formare la lingua, crea identità e comunità.

It would be atrocious," I said, "to kill a man in order to say bu-ba-baff!

Sin unos ojos que lo lean, un libro contiene signos que no producen conceptos. Y por tanto, es mudo.