Quotes About Expression

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Tears are not arguments.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

A man's mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.