Quotes About Expression

You know kids, I wish every mom and dad would make a speech to their teenagers and say kids, be free, be whatever you are, do whatever you want to do, just so long as you don't hurt anybody

Her paintings formed a visual diary, an outward manifestation of her inward dialog that was, all too often, a scream of pain.

Use simple words, words that _create pictures_ and _action_ and that _generate feeling._

Words that do not create images should be discarded. Words that have no intrinsic emotional or visual content ought to be avoided. Words that are directed to the sterile intellectual head-place should be abandoned. Use simple words, words that create pictures and action and that generate feeling.

Feelings have their own special names. The more names you know, the more you can understand your feelings and tell other people about them. And the more you can stick up for yourself. Names are like handles for our feelings. Knowing

of Shelley's masterpiece was not vague,

I am the dumb, the wild, the things now dead / That men have killed for being mute and strange

You hear me speak. But do you hear me feel?

For nothing on earth so dulls the soul, or inflicts on it such speedy and sure harm, as when it sees and learns that all the things that ought to be expressed only on bended knee and with the full surrender of oneself, are also being continually expressed without this surrender, and without this bending of the knee.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

I am Rose my eyes are blueI am Rose and who are youI am Rose and when I singI am Rose like anything.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

I am writing for myself and strangers.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

Remarks are not literature [said to Hemingway].

Pigeons on the grass alas.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will.

Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?