Quotes About Expression

A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and grow-and feelings are all that matters, as far as I'm concerned. Is a feeling anything but an entire world poured into a thought?

Happiness is the inner poetry of women, just as fine clothes are the mask of beauty

Souvent, j'ai accompli de délicieux voyages, embarqué sur un mot ...

A line is a method of expressing the effect of light upon an object; but there are no lines in Nature, everything is solid. We draw by modeling, that is to say, that we disengage an object from its setting; the distribution of the light alone gives to a body the appearance by which we know it.

Le grand monde a son argot. Mais cet argot s'appelle le style.

La verdadera pasión se expresa con gritos, con suspiros fastidiosos para el hombre frío.

Ma chi può lusingarsi di essere compreso? Moriamo tutti incompresi. È il detto delle donne e quello degli scrittori.

Nada en los lenguajes humanos, ninguna traducción del pensamiento hecha con ayuda de los colores, los mármoles, las palabras o los sonidos sabría expresar el nervio, la verdad, la finitud, lo súbito del pensamiento en el alma!

Ak mladík v diev?ati prebudí lásku a potom odíde, je to ako ke? umelec opustí v polovici majstrovské dielo.

I think it would be a good stunt to get along without any art at all for a generation, and see what we miss.

I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

An artist should be as impartial as God.

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.

Ojiisan says if you want to understand a people, look at their language. The words write the history, not the other way around.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.