Quotes About Expression

Communication is everything to you artists. You can't look at a landscape or a bowl of fruit without thinking how you will put it on a canvas so that somebody else will see it as your landscape or your bowl of fruit. That is the inescapable vulgarity of art.

Prayer is the most direct expression of the religious consciousness.

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough.

It's simple. Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

Creativity is merely the arrangement of existing forms into new relationships.

The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially.

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

Há palavras que são pronunciadas com a simples intenção de agir sobre os outros homens e de produzir algum efeito: o que sucede também quando se escreve. Elas não têm valor: as únicas palavras que contam são as pronunciadas tendo em vista a verdade e não o resultado.

The poet is a maker, not a retail trader.

We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

Jazz is my childhood.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

We permit free expression because we need the resources of the whole group to get us the ideas we need.

Charming. Charming language. Same as your father. Bad language and hating budgies go together.

It's the body and eyes that tell what a person is thinking or going to do.