Quotes About Expression

as she spoke, she watched the expressions on the faces go from incredulous shock, to hopeful belief, and finally to awestruck acceptance

Authors. Even the sane one are nuts. - Da Vinci Code

The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.

When a computer creates art, who is the artist—the computer or the programmer?

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change.

Como siempre dice el señor Kirsch, uno de los objetivos del arte consiste en fomentar el diálogo.

Impressionists, Cubists, and Surrealists who had stunned the world between 1870 and 1960 by entirely redefining art. VAN GOGH… SEURAT… PICASSO… MUNCH… MATISSE… MAGRITTE… KLIMT… KANDINSKY… JOHNS… HOCKNEY… GAUGUIN… DUCHAMP… DEGAS… CHAGALL… CÉZANNE… CASSATT… BRAQUE… ARP… ALBERS…

One of the objectives of art is to promote dialogue.

You know me, Robert, when my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier.

dos tipos de religiones: los credos dogmáticos y oscuros, que reprimen todo pensamiento original… y las religiones luminosas y expansivas, que fomentan la introspección y la creatividad.

When my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier

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Humor cannot be programmed…it must be learned.

This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.

the conventions of language reveal the ways we see the world.

one way most of us deal with feelings is to ignore them or pretend they don't exist—to deny them. Then, as the pressure builds, we occasionally experience emotional episodes such as arguments or explosions (and we may later berate ourselves for having "lost control").

The ability to express feelings is an important life skill. But forever expressing upset feelings tends to restimulate them.

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. — ANDRÉ GIDE

A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatazoa attacking an ovum.

Mark Twain once opined in his homey way: "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.

speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'...

Goddamn fatherfucking asshole politician moral paraplegic dipshit drag-queen bitch!

The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows. But there are other voices to be heard. There are other songs to be sung.