Quotes About Expression

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Anton Webern moved composition to the brink of silence.

Pfauen sind blühende Hühner, sagte Dole, aber die Schreie, diese Schreie sind Gottesgewimmer.

I wana go out like I came in... Naked and Screaming!

I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.

Good prose is solitary work.

Art is long and life is short.

The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

A writer who can't use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

Art and savagery, aesthetics and violence. Were they contradictory or symbiotic?

Architectural gestures affect us in similar ways to human gestures.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

You have cut yourself a shape on the air, which may be My scar.

You have such little hands. I knew I should love you.

I've always found D Minor to be the sad key.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

La vie sert à faire des opéras-comiques.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.