Quotes About Expression

To hunt words is to do no trespass.

Although the cricket's song has no words, still, it sounds like sorrow.

as if I'd said I wanted to sell cheese sandwiches outside Grateful Dead concerts...

He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart.

Toen fotograferen nog iets bijzonders was en een afdruk relatief duur lachte iedereen die op de foto ging. Alsof de foto zo meer waard werd.

Tijd heeft geen betekenis op een schilderij. Als het goed is tenminste.' 'En op foto's?' vroeg Vogels. 'De meeste foto's hebben een rouwrand. Heden overleed. Een goed schilderij is net als een stem op een band. Altijd nu, in het heden. Maar wat lul ik, ik fotografeer nauwelijks nog.

In de taal zit een vrijheid verborgen waar de censor niet bij kan. Al onze schrijvers kennen dat geheim.

Don't bury it, use it. Don't keep it in, give it away. Don't turn that love in, turn that love out.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

Cuántas veces Maddalena Strozzi cortó una rosa blanca y la sintió gemir entre sus dedos, retorcerse y gemir débilmente como una pequeña mandrágora o uno de esos lagartos que cantan como las liras cuando se les muestra un espejo.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.

I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use these languages, or we remain mute.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

I love recording music.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.