Quotes About Expression

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

Man's most serious activity is play.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

Boys don't cry, but men do.

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.