Quotes About Expression

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

A man posing for a painting.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.