Quotes About Expression

Ge kunt soms gedachten hebben die niet te dragen zijn tusschen vier muurkens. Die zoo geweldig groot zijn dat ge aan uw deurken moet, of anders zou uw kop openklakken.

Om het even welke kleur bevalt me, als ze maar rood is.

Wie is nu dichter en wie niet? Gij en ik kunnen het zijn, zonder het misschien zelf te weten! In u kan een verlangen zijn, een vreemde stuwkracht die u naar de pen doet grijpen om neer te schrijven wat ge gezien, gehoord en zeer diep gevoeld hebt. Het moet niet altijd in rijm zijn om kunst te zijn.

Ik wentelde me naar hem toe en legde me met wijdgeopende muis over z'n stijve boodschapper neer. Ik zei hem dat ik z'n fluit wou, dat ik er heet naar lag, dat ik ze binnen in me kut moest hebben. Me muis heeft honger naar je stijve zaadworst, zei ik hem. Ik weet niet wat ik d'r allemaal nog uitflapte (...)

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

She laughed. It was quick but it took over her face like a sneeze.

Won't teach any more if I can help it; don't like it; and if I can get writing enough can do much better.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

No woman should be shame-faced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands...

The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it's not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don't like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.

And what's the use of talking, if you already know that others don't feel what you feel?

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don't love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance and I learned how to dance by watching Charles Chaplin act.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

If you have a simply swell story in mind, you can forget the rules. A swell story takes care of itself.

Before my daughter was lost to me, I might have attributed his apparent stillness and control to a lack of feeling, but now I know, to my cost, that appearing unfeeling is the price we sometimes pay for being able to speak at all.

Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does.

For Margaret Some people laugh ha-ha-ha. Other people put their hands on their mouths he-he-he. In the department stores Santa laughs ho-ho-ho. But this girl I know? okay, this girl I'm crazy for laughs like an envelope tearing open and good stuff spilling out.

Take a little time to listen to the words you say. If you hear yourself saying something three times, write it down. It has become a pattern for you. At the end of a week, look at the list you've made and you'll see how your words fit your experiences.