Quotes About Expression

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

Words . . . present a picture of the inward man.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

In the same way that men wear ties to add personality to their clothing, so too should women wear their accessories.

Noise tri­umphs and reigns supreme over the sen­si­bil­ity of men.

Straight men need to be emasculated.... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.

Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

Ladies love a man with shirt off, so my shirt stays off

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria's Secret. There would be no Dior.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.