Quotes About Expression

The least intelligent person carries the most epic message in their eyes.

You tell me your truth like your spreading your wings and that's the most beautiful thing about your life.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

To write, one only needs a pen. Of course, by pen I mean enclosure.

The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

My conversation is probably something like the rain. On some days it pours, and then on other days there's just a clear sky- not a word in sight.

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one. Stella Adler

Every hour of the day an artist falls to earth and we fall beside them. I fell a long time ago with Arky Levin. But I fell before that beside Marina Abramovi?.

Along with a career, four children and a husband, she bakes and cooks, sews, preserves, sings, embroiders, gardens, arranges flowers, decorates cakes, and makes kayaks and pottery.

writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I'm here. Help. Please find me.

Mental illness didn't really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was less like obliteration, more like italics.

When I thought about it, though, what I liked best about the session was that Helder said fuck. A good, hard word, a word with a life of its own, a fearless word. A rent in the dry elegance. Fuck.

He said I was learning to talk about my life more objectively so that it felt like a part of my life and not a part of myself.

Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than writing a whole bunch of reports. What's in your head does not count, not for sculpture, not for book writing. Pencil on paper is what matters. Words on paper, pages and pages, chapter after chapter.

Repeating yourself is brave. Repeating yourself calls attention to what you are saying.

How would I ever consider a skill that gave me goose bumps a hobby?

I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.

Sometimes the spirits speak for you and sometimes the spirits make you speak.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul. —Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself

The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. —Harpo Marx

It's important to tell the people you love how much you love them while they can hear you. —Meredith Grey