Quotes About Expression

Saying the truth out loud makes it more real.

Él dice que los regalos no son importantes, pero yo pienso que sí lo son; no por cuánto cuesten, sino por la oportunidad que nos dan de decir te entiendo.

Our apartment didn't have any good doors to slam. If you wanted to slam a door, you would either end up in the hallway or trapped in the bathroom. Those were the only options.

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. Then people will get to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and wonder what happened—how we all became so imperfect.

Question: On a scale from one to ten how fierce are you?- David: You are just asking me this because I am gay... What the fuck does that mean? -David Levithan, at Teen Lit Con-

He asked me if I wrote, and I told him the truth - that I was still observing, and hadn't yet found the words.

can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

I'm not sure we're any better, but able to describe the attempt to track our wandering in circles in a way that perhaps somebody else can identify with. I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

but the creative juices dry up if they're not kept in circulation.

When you finish anything, people want you to then talk about it. And I think it's almost like a crime. A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it's not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it's not going to translate. It's going to lose.

Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or because of—his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great—I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

Stay true to yourself. Let your voice ring out, and don't let anybody fiddle with it.

Ideas are like fish. You don't make the fish, you catch the fish.

Actors are so filled with wonder and imagination and they get it so quick, no matter how strange something is. They get it, and their talent is to make it real from a deep place. When that happens it's really, really beautiful.

You can tell all the stories you want, but you still haven't gotten across what the experience was like. It's like telling somebody a dream. It doesn't give them the dream. So

one of his eyebrows was missing. Strange how unimportant eyebrows can be, as long as there are two of them

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual, that leave you unsure, but which you think about perhaps the next day, and perhaps for a week, and perhaps for the rest of your life. Because they aren't clean, they aren't neat, but there's something in them that comes from the heart, and, so, goes to the heart.

A simple creature unlettyrde. Julian of Norwich called herself. The most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Echoed Jane Austen—four hundred years afterward.

One of the things people generally admire about Van Gogh, even though they were not always aware of it, was the way he could make even a chair seem to have anxiety in it.

People who write novels only write them when they have very little else to write

Demasiadas notas, mi querido Mozart.

Si es arte no es para todos, y si es para todos no es arte.

Matisse, consultado sobre la piel verde: No estoy pintando una mujer. Estoy pintando un cuadro.