Quotes About Expression

The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.