Quotes About Expression

And the education I can receive from an afternoon with Picasso, or from taking one of my nieces or nephews to the movies, is not at all what the state has in mind when it speaks of Education.

An artist's) role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.

If you're an artist, you're guilty of a crime: not that you're aware, which is bad enough, but that you see things other people don't admit are there.

Writing for me must be a very controlled exercise, formed by passions and hopes.

Je n'étais pas boxeur, je n'étais pas beau, je n'étais pas chanteur, je n'étais pas danseur j'étais drôlement coincé la seul chose que j'ai pensé est que peut-être je pouvais être écrivain

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. (1879-1958)

Write! Write! Write! Never underestimate the power of the written word. Few company leaders make good use of the most powerful human tool—the pen. Use it. People will read what you write because you're the leader, and they'll be influenced by it. Think of how much weaker the United States would be if the Constitution had never been written down.

The point is not to create a perfect statement but to gain a deep understanding of your organization's core values and purpose, which can then be expressed in a multitude of ways. In fact, we often suggest that once the core has been identified, managers should generate their own statements of the core values and purpose to share with their groups.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. —Joyce Carol Oates

reminding himself to remember forever that the pen's a long arm from the grave.

His eyes Were just the end Of Hell— All pain, Articulate.

Our writers have always pointed the way for us, Mr. Grey, they've formed our thinking and feeling, Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Chekhov, Bunin …" He added with pride, "Writers with us are pathfinders.

It's all shit," he had muttered in English, and felt better.

There are three things that are difficult to keep hidden: a fire, a cold, and love. —Polish Proverb

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!

Language liberates as it offends. Confidential taught me that.

Typography is what communication looks like. There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.

Type and typography—what you do and how you do it—are both science and art.