Quotes About Expression

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.