Quotes About Expression

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

More important: Unless you're in the hard sciences, the process of writing is your most valuable single tool for developing better ideas. The process of writing is the dominant source of intellectual creativity.

the process of writing is your most valuable single tool for developing better ideas. The process of writing is the dominant source of intellectual creativity.

To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.

A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.

A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation.

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

This is a great country, in no small part because it is the best country ever devised in which to be a public crank. Never has a nation so dedicated itself to the proposition that not only should people hold nutty ideas, but they should cultivate them, treasure them, shine them up, and put them right up there on the mantelpiece. This is still the best country ever in which to peddle complete public lunacy. In fact, it's the only country to enshrine that right in its founding documents.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

The flip side of this is that any information that can be reduced to a choice among two or more possibilities can be expressed using bits. Needless

In the same way that Morse code reduces written language to dots and dashes, the spoken version of the code reduces speech to just two vowel sounds. The key word here is two. Two types of blinks, two vowel sounds, two different anything, really, can with suitable combinations convey all types of information.

By the second week of November 1990, a new character had begun to spring forth in Kurt's journal writings, and this figure would soon make its way into almost every image, song, or story. He intentionally misspelled its name, and in doing so he was granting it a life of its own. Oddly, he gave it a female persona, but since it became his great love that Fall - and even made him throw up, just like Tobi - there was a fairness in this gender choice. He called it 'heroine'.

to tell an emotional truth rather than an actual one.

Jimi had an extraordinary sense of self-awareness and an uncanny ability to use music to express emotional truths.

The true Christian is not a man who has merely submitted to certain rites, but one who has adopted these rites because he believes that they were established by his Lord and desires thus to express his love and devotion to him, seeking for praise "not of men, but of God.

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.