Quotes About Expression

This book also contains what some people call 'profanity'. I think they're full of shit.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes when you walk—and remember who you are!

"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on."I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the same thing, you know.""Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation.

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

In a free market the people are free, the ideas are locked up.

The more we allow such commodity art to define and control our gifts, the less gifted we will become, as individuals and as a society. The

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

Just as ritual, if I have correctly interpreted it , was the first step toward effective expression and communication through language, so taboo was the first step toward moral discipline. Without both, man's career might have ended long ago, as so many powerful rulers and nations have ended their lives, in psychotic outbreaks and life-depressing perversions.

The ability to transmit in symbolic forms and human patterns a representative portion of a culture is the great mark of the city: this is the condition for encouraging the fullest expression of human capacities and potentialities, even in the rural and primitive areas beyond.

Something essential to man's creativity, even in science, may disappear when the defiantly metaphoric language of poetry gives way completely to the denatured language of the computer.

Even if the rest of man's history were lost, the vocabularies, the grammars, and the literature of all his present languages would testify to a mind infinitely above the level of any other living creature's. And if some sudden mutation afflicting the progeny of the entire human race resulted in the birth of only deaf-mutes, the outcome would be almost as fatal to human existence as that of a nuclear chain reaction.

Birdsong itself may have awakened the latent musical gifts of man.

Dick Cheney...and that's all I've gotta say.

Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised.

A Love Supreme' is Coltrane's best-known and best-selling album.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.