Quotes About Expression

Usté me va a perdonar, pero apenas entiendo lo que dice. A nosotros ya no nos gusta hablar la lengua mexicana.» ¿Cuánto se perdió en el camino para que esa mujer se haya alienado de su idioma y por tanto, de su identidad? Tú la hubieras reprendido. La lengua es el último baluarte de la resistencia.

Un arte de burbuja, sn contaminación, sin riesgo, sin acercarnos a los márgenes de la sociedad, es un arte desdentado

Pedí a las bailarinas que no se abochornaran por la sangre. Era la condición femenina expresándose en forma natural y bastaba de avergonzarse por ello. Debíamos mostrar —según matizaba Lucien— «aquello que nos negamos a ver, pero está ahí».

Para alcanzar tus metas jugaste la carta de los símbolos, y nada más simbólico que la indumentaria.

Álvaro Mutis había escrito una gran crónica de su estancia en Lecumberri, él haría su Reclusorio Oriente reloaded.

en el arte se hace lo que se puede, no lo que se quiere».

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.

Sometimes the objects we hold dear give away who we are even more than the people we love.

The raindrops were tears too. The whole world was crying.

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)

Sometimes we need to see what we feel so we can know about it.

Elisa lives in a world of her own devising. That's obvious from the shoes. Zelda imagines Elisa's perception as one of those dioramas she saw in a museum, perfect little realms, breakable but not if you walk softly.

All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in your entirety for who you are, that's the greatest act of love, because it's granting you existence. And the rarest act of love is, like cinema, to see.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but its creation is in the mind and hand of the artist.

What?" EiLeen flinched. "I am not cute.

me." "That's exactly what she means. That's your own private zone where you create what

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Words prepare the way for deeds to come, detonate future explosions.

What one writes is only the ashes of one's experience.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

verzeihen Sie, daß ich so furchtbar gescheit daherrede, aber wenn man an der Universität ist, kommt einem eine Menge vertrottelter Bücher unter die Hände; unwillkürlich verfällt man dann in eine deppenhafte Ausdrucksweise.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.