Quotes About Expression

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

The only way to kill death is through photography.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

Art is a protest against death.

The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, '"That's nice." It's the kiss of death.

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

I never again want to hear that self-admiring voice of yours or see your smug fucking lily-white face.