Quotes About Expression

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

Every word written is a victory against death.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Competition is the death of art.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Didacticism is the death of art.

You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.