Quotes About Expression

For EARTH which is an intelligence hath a voice and a propensity to speak in all her parts.

When you "spell" a word correctly, you are in effect casting a spell, charging these abstract, arbitrary symbols with meaning and power.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

Your constructive criticism has been noted and is appreciated. Fuck you very much.

As the conductor Leopold Stokowski once famously said, "…a painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of the word is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

Art saved my life

Costumes. The clothes we wear over who we really are. Or really want to be

So why go out as a question mark when you can go out as an exclamation point instead?

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

Did you just say shrug instead of actually shrugging?

Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage.