Quotes About Expression

The goal of the poem is not to conceal uncertainty and to deliver an airtight argument, or proclamation, or insight, not to arrive at some truth, but rather to display the nature of the speaker's "real-time" sensibility, including its tendency toward indecisiveness and self-contradiction.

O'Hara famously said that a poem was something one wrote instead of making a phone call to a friend, and his poems are indeed as conversational and friendly as phone calls.

our quality of life is the quality of communication

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.

We know the secret of making art, while they only know hte minor secret of making mischief. We proceed from joy, they only have their misery.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

Purple? Boy, what kind of a homosexual are you, anyway? That's not purple, Mary, that color up there is mauve.

Speak then, dear lady. I am a field of corn." "Field of corn?" "All ears.

I've been writing poems since I was sixteen. Back then, poems were an obvious release for all the frustrations and anxieties associated with adolescence. Mostly, they were a way for me to impress girls, even though I never remember any girls being impressed.

I'm a barrelful of hate! Come open me up!

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

never fall for anyone who prefers speaking someone else's words.

And with every exercise, he reminds us of the one and only rule. Acting isn't pretending. The clue is in the word. Acting is doing. Being. Becoming.

Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don't you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning 'of one's free will.' Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it wants to do. But you are afraid of what others think, others who are just as afraid of what you think, and so you pussyfoot along the perimeter of the free-will zone, wilting like a wallflower.

je kunt je de vreugde van het ' zingen' niet voorstellen als je zelf nooit zingt zo kun je ook de weldaad van 'geloven' niet aanvoelen als je zelf niet geloofd

El arte es la ciencia de lo inútil.

Todo eso que está inútilmente añadido a la pura necesidad, es arte.

El arte es tanto más sublime cuanto mayor es su inutilidad.

Todo lo que vive lleva el sonido consigo!

Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it?