Quotes About Expression

Your vote is your voice.

I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.... the poet brings his poem... the farmer, corn... the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. This is right and pleasing, for it restores society in so far to its primary basis, when a man's biography is conveyed in his gift... But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

We're fools whether or not we dance, so we may as well dance.

Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

It's so strange to think that before Facebook all this nonsense just stayed in people's heads.

When what I express to another isn't felt or wanted or understood, the feeling goes back into myself and stabs me.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

No one is listening until you fart.

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

The tongue rolles there where the teeth aketh.

Smile — it lets your teeth breathe.

When you dance to your own rhythm, Life taps its toes to your beat.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. There come great eruptions and revolts, great dark ravages, and above all, a joylessness. A great, bleak joylessness. Everything that is natural brings joy.

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do.

Even in repose, Scorpio's expression remains intense. When looking directly at a person, a Scorpio makes his subject feel penetrated.

The word is mightier than the sword.

Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the dramatic – I don't mean over-the-top. The main thing is never to be boring.

I do not create a fashionable aesthetic… I create a style based on life.