Quotes About Expression

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.

Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

As a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

But like all the other women I have referred to, she expressed herself with passionate and disarming effrontery.

The life of the imagination is a vital element of our total nature. If we starve it or pollute it the quality of our life is depressed or soiled.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

If you don't like my story,write your own

If I hold her hand she says, 'Don't touch!' If I hold her foot she says 'Don't touch!' But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

You want to invent new ideas, not new rules.

But isn't the use of a template or a checklist confining? Surely we're not arguing that a "color by numbers" approach will yield more creative work than a blank-canvas approach? Actually, yes, that's exactly what we're saying.

Rule 2. Concrete Is Better: Use Whole Numbers to Describe Whole Objects, Not Decimals, Fractions, or Percentages.27

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it's … makin' ART.

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

It's not Art. And Art is not Design.

I've been drawing shoes,' said Sketch, evoking a fireman who's been searching the smoking hulks of scorched buildings for burn victims, 'and it's been going feetingly.

photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence — once they became an option — they mutated . . . into a form of expression. And Art for its own sake, God help us, was born.

In a judgment-free arena, there is an evident invitation to surface imaginative ideas, perspectives, and insights.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.