Quotes About Expression

Jeff had learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art.

That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

Our assessment of reading may begin with standardized test scores, but in the end we must measure a child's reading ability by the amount of laughter exhaled and tears shed as the written word is devoured.

Some people never really talk about anything—they just repeat the same old sentence from time to time.

I love Raina Telgemeier

Thoughts can exist... feelings can exist... but words do not always exist.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Works of art are indeed always products of having been in danger, of having gone to the very end in an experience, to where man can go no further.

He was a poet and hated the approximate.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Yes, everything that is truly seen must become a poem.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.