Quotes About Expression

You made your students write stories about happiness and they were, you said, the worst stories of the year.

You may want to find a way to suggest ironic distance between the poet and speaker.

the problem might be she calls herself "she" ...

whacking the ground, like a wife pounding her pillow, alone all night.

Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can't do it. You can't expect them to love you.

Just tell the story!

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

We already use catchwords as substitutes for thinking, thereby limiting our vocabulary along with the use of our brains. In

Poetry is the flower of civilization," said Chesterton in one lecture. "Romanticism has worked itself out in our time in nonsense and dirt. We should remind the humanists that if poetry has become too personal it has also become unpoetic.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

No matter what happens, always be yourself.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

You are -" she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - "Sprout Bradford?" I thought it was a little pretentious to say "You are Sprout Bradford?" instead of "Are you Sprout Bradford?" so I said, "I are Sprout Bradford!" in my best half-hick, half-retard voice.

she thought that sometimes you walk right into language as though it's a chair out of place in a dark room: a word, an expression you live with all your life can become suddenly, completely unfamiliar. That night Beatrice stumbled over death, but it was dark, and she was tired, and she believed that she had stumbled across love.

I want to be there to remind them I haven't got a tongue to stick into the cheek I haven't got either.

The important thing is that Mr. Simmons he receives the flowers. Flowers are beautiful. Mister Simmons is a gentleman and he will enjoy them. That he should know where they came from that is quite beside the point. I know that I have expressed my gratitude with something beautiful. I know that I have tried to repay him for the splendid things he has done for me. It is not important that Mr. Simmons he should know it. It is only important that he should receive the roses yes?

See how I sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

I want to make the world a more magickal place. To give magick a form that people appreciate, and that changes their lives. To create art that will make people want to forever reject the mundane and mediocre world they've been surrounded by

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.