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Quotes About Expression

But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.
~ Unknown
I just don't want to bother looking at recipes. To me, that's not cooking—being tied to a piece of paper." He
~ Unknown
Cooking was a passion and sometimes a serious art form, to be shared with a select few.
~ Unknown
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
~ Isadora Duncan
Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
~ Isadora Duncan
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
~ Isadora Duncan
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
~ Isadora Duncan
Movements are as eloquent as words.
~ Isadora Duncan
The more I say the more remains to be said … as soon as I speak it becomes quite clear that, no matter how long I speak, new chasms open. No matter what I say I always have to leave three dots at the end. Whatever description I give always opens the doors to something further, something even darker, perhaps, but certainly something which is in principle incapable of being reduced to precise, clear, verifiable, objective prose.
~ Isaiah Berlin
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.
~ Isak Dinesen
All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.
~ Isak Dinesen
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
~ Isak Dinesen
A great artist is never poor.
~ Isak Dinesen
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost.
~ Unknown
I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.
~ Ishmael Beah
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
~ Ishmael Reed
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
~ Ishmael Reed
Dance is the universal art, the common joy of expression. Those who cannot dance are imprisoned in their own ego and cannot live well with other people and the world. They have lost the tune of life. They only live in cold thinking. Their feelings are deeply repressed while they attach themselves forlornly to the earth.
~ Ishmael Reed
We will leap tall couplets in a single bound
~ Ishmael Reed
Writin' is fightin'.
~ Ishmael Reed
Unique feelings are so unique that they can not be popularized. Feelings without words in the dictionary disappear. Every year thousands of feelings disappear for lack of a concrete form.
~ Isidore Isou
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it
~ Isidore Isou
Le poète dilate les voyelles.
~ Isidore Isou
Feelings demand living space.
~ Isidore Isou