Quotes About Expression

Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

Anyhow, it is a definite colour: I am glad I have red hair. There is it is in the mirror, it makes itself seen, it shines. I am still lucky if my forehead was surmounted by one of those neutral heads of hair which are neither chestnut not blond, my face would be lost in vagueness, it would make me dizzy.

The words I speak are too big for my mouth, they tear it; the load of destiny I bear is too heavy for my youth and has shattered it.

A work of art is only a page torn from a life. It expresses this life, of course, but it could have very well not expressed it. No matter, for everything has the same value, whether it be writing The Possessed or drinking a cup of coffee.

a man is more of a man because of what he does not say than what he does say.

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

You know I've had work banned.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

The independent project, in a general way, requests a constant work to spread, in the traditional way and in the alternative circuit. It is a fight... but I believe that it is the way.

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.