Quotes About Expression

THE UNANNOUNCED EMOTION: Don't advertise a mood. Invoke it

People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.

Euphemism. A form of irony that makes bad things sound good—or at least not as bad. Personification. Pretending things are human: another role-playing trope. Kindergarten Imperative. Issues a command in terms of a personal need. Yogism. A foolishly wise expression.

Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.

It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge.

There is no Great American Novel," she said absently. "This nation is too big and too diverse to produce only one great book. We've got lots of them and there will be more written in the future. Art doesn't stand still.

She wanted to scream her rage to the uncaring universe, but she couldn't breathe.

Hysterics are the hallmark of the production of genius. Insults are its common currency.

Art does not die because there is no more art; it dies because there is too much.

We are all transsexuals, just as we are biological mutants in potentia. This is not a biological issue, however: we are all transsexuals symbolically.

In New York, madmen are free. Put out on the streets, they're not all that different from the punks, junk, junkies, alcoholics, beggars who fill it. It is unclear why a city, just as mad, would suddenly keep its madmen locked up, why should he deprive the movement of these samples of madness, if it, in one form or another, has already captured the entire city

Any gloss on authors, their character traits or biographies, hides the fact that only bad writing has an author, good writing does not.

To turn yourself into an image is to expose your daily life, your misfortunes, your desires and your possibilities. It is to have no secrets left. Never to tire of expressing yourself, speaking, communicating. To be readable at every moment, overexposed to the glare of the information media (like the woman who appears live twenty-four hours a day on the Internet, showing the tiniest details of her life).

She sucks at her words as they come out. She seems to practise a constant fellatio on the words she pronounces.

A woman is beautiful only if she is naked beneath her clothes. A thought is beautiful only if it is naked beneath language. In other words, violent. Each sentence is the spark of a will to power.

L'art ne meurt pas parce qu'il n'y en a plus ; il meurt parce qu'il y en a trop.

Tautology, being the most vulgar logical expression, is always the strongest argument.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand … We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Le cinéma, c'est l'écriture moderne dont l'encre est la lumière.

Imitate, and what is personal will eventually come despite yourself.