Quotes About Expression

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. Picasso

Pour moi, peindre un tableau c'est engager une action dramatique au cours de laquelle la réalité se trouve déchirée. Ce drame l'emporte sur toute autre considération. L'acte plastique n'est que secondaire, en ce qui me concerne. Ce qui compte, c'est le drame de l'acte lui-même, le moment où l'univers s'échappe pour rencontrer sa propre destruction

Les bons artistes empruntent, les grands artistes volent.

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.

Writers, of course, are obliged by our professions to spend much of our time going nowhere. Our creations come not when we're out in the world, gathering impressions, but when we're sitting still, turning those impressions into sentences. Our job, you could say, is to turn, through stillness, a life of movement into art. Sitting still is our workplace, sometimes our battlefield.

poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)

Myslím, že nejsem ani básník, ani spisovatel, ani umÄ›lec. Ale ?lovÄ›k, který nenaÅ¡el jiný zp?sob, jak z?stat ve styku s životem, jak se udržet nad hladinou. Psal jsem, jako se chytáme záchranného pásu.

One looks for some other words but the ideas are always just as dark, just as simple and singularly painful.

When it is possible to speak a word, it liberates. We do not always remember that it is precisely a word, a Word articulated in our flesh, which has liberated us.

All true art stems from the depths of the unconscious mind.

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

La Vita o si vive o si scrive

Mira, I wanna tell you something. I ain't got time to tell you what I should've when I had time, but I dig you a whole lot. Deeg you? she asked, puzzled. I explained to her what it meant and told her that I would write it to her in Spanish and say it like it was.

O que de pior acontece a qualquer pessoa é tornar-se inimigo da palavra

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something