Quotes About Expression

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

The best education in film is to make one

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

My music is definitely very personal. The songs are about moments, snapshots of everyday life, and about having one's say, or at least feeling like one has had one's say.

Outwardly seeing how your music effects culture and everyday life, is amazing.