Quotes About Expression

Writing only leads to more writing.

She's a very mysterious creature, with an open smile and a closed soul.

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation

To write sincerely, almost sincerely! I hope it may bring me relief, that sort of interior silence which follows a sudden utterance, a confession.

I put on a martyred expression - like this - as if I was bored to death with every luxury under the sun. I had the time of my life.

One can't write of love while making love.

Do not think, as you read this, that I am painting my own portrait. Be patient, it is only my model.

Es horrible pensar, como me pasa cada vez que empiezo un libro, que ya no tengo, que nunca he tenido talento alguno.

car écrire ne conduit qu'à écrire.

When does one stop writing? . . . I thought in the past that the work of writing was like other tasks; the tool is laid down and one cries out in delight: 'Finished!' and you clap your hands, from where there rain down grains of sand that first one believed to be precious . . . It is then that you read in the outlines traced by the grains of sand the words: 'To be continued . . .

Those who are not imitated always get disappointed.

No one has ever talked to me as he did of the color blue or of golden hair curling like shavings around a reddened ear ...

Il emportait un malaise qu'il connaissait trop bien, l'agacement, la gêne de ne jamais exprimer ce qu'il eût voulu exprimer, de ne jamais rencontrer la personne à qui il devait confier un aveu indéfini, un secret qui eût tout changé et dépouillé de son signe néfaste.

The truth is that there is no such thing as a negative emotion. Emotions only become "bad" and have a negative effect on us when they are suppressed, denied, or unexpressed. Positive thinking is really just another form of denial.

You see this dub thing, I was the one who invented it in 1965. People think it came later. But sometimes when I got a song to mix I used to just rub out the lyrics and remake it, and add in all kind of echoes and reverb and all that. Cause to tell you the truth, that is how I was seeing myself–like somebody whose voice got rubbed out.

Jakie spo?ecze?stwo, taka literatura. (how society is, such is literature)

And so, although I have no lyre, I sing: For there is a desire, within me - a self-taught hymn

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

The creative talent belongs to the outsider, and to be an outsider is the artist's fate.

Whether ritualized or not, art contains the rationality of negation. In its advanced positions, it is the Great Refusal—the protest against that which is.

This language, which constantly imposes images, militates against the development and expression of concepts.

In metaphor we say what we mean, but we don't mean what we say. In analogy we mean what we say, but we don't know what we mean.