Quotes About Expression

I found the power to move beyond the steps, to not merely dance the part but to become it.

Literature is a power, like a foreign language you possess.

This is how we were meant for each other. How we make our living. The lives of frustrated poets and imposters. This, too, how the love works and then doesn't: a mutual spectacle of imagination.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.

The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged.

The term "queer" is not simply a 1990s recoding of a pre-Stonewall epithet but here refers to a myriad forms of same-sex and other non-normative kinds of desire that have come to inform certain specific identity groups such as gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender individuals, transsexuals, transvestites, cross dressers, drag queens, drag kings, alternative straights and anyone in between.

Man is a social animal; his character is a social product. The purely human qualities not only lose their value when divorced from social relationships, it is these relationships that provide the only medium for their activity. To say that a person is free to express moral qualities in the absence of his fellows is meaningless, since it is only in their presence that the manifestation of them is possible.

I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top.

To know another language is to have a second soul.

Avoir une autre langue c'est posséder une deuxième âme.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.?

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

These beings have no other profession than to cultivate the idea of beauty in their person, to satisfy their passions, to feel and to think.

All great poets become naturally, fatally, critics.

What is art? Prostitution.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days — but not without poetry.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

What do I care that you are good?Be beautiful! and be sad!