Quotes About Expression

As One and Unique, and yet as one who is to be understood only in the context of mankind's entire history and in the context of the whole created cosmos, Jesus it the Word, the Image, the Expression and the Exegesis of God.

As One and Unique, and yet as one who is to be understood only in the context of mankind's entire history and in the context of the whole created cosmos, Jesus is the Word, the Image, the Expression and the Exegesis of God.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

El juego es una función elemental de la vida humana, hasta el punto de que no se puede pensar en absoluto la cultura humana sin un componente lúdico.

Con seguridad, la esencia de una gran obra de arte no ha consistido nunca en procurarle a la «naturaleza» una reproducción plena y fiel, un retrato.

La significatividad inherente a lo bello del arte, de la obra de arte, remite a algo que no está de modo inmediato en la visión comprensible como tal.

Bowling is an art and I am an artist."

That's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.

The wall was an eyesore in its newness, grayness, lack of grace. That much blank space might not set a regular person's blood racing, but to an artist, it's like opening up a new sketchpad, the kind with heavy textured paper. Impossible to leave it empty.

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves.

Prepositional verbs grow like toadstools. Once there was credit in facing a problem. Now problems have to be faced up to. The prepositions add nothing of significance.

Picasso has been many times quoted as saying good artists copy, great artists steal.

I appreciate engineers, I wrote a book about their achievements, but I deprecate what they and other techies do to English words. Hey, these nouns and verbs aren't bits of silicon you can dope with chemicals (boron, phosphorus, and arsenic), drop into a kiln at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and slice and dice. Words breathe. They need TLC—you know

haiku were not written to be weighed down with commentary. (Buson, p. 103)

too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry. (Preface, vii)

Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.