Quotes About Expression

Many bowdlerized versions indicated a Victorian-minded censorship, which feared that Little Red Riding Hood might some day break out, become a Bohemian, and live in the woods with the wolf.

Just as you would when making a new work of art, don't ask for help or seek the judgment of others. You don't want to be subjected to another person's limitations or expectations.

I've choreographed all of my movies.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

Have you noticed how every tree is different here? All twisted by the wind and snow, but if that was all, they should have been twisted in the same way. It's as though every tree has made up its own mind exactly how it wants to grow.

I felt I'd used up most of my life's words in the palace, among folk who were never really mine, in a place that wasn't home.

Poetry in here keeps the conversation open between the living and the dead, the misunderstood and the wise, the imprisoned and the free. Koestler Voices Vol. 3

Poetry is in rude health. People are turning to it more and more to try and make sense of the world we are living in. In these particular times, poetry finds its place" Wise words from

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Jackson Pollock

My painting does not come from the easel.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

There's a lot you can do with a name like Amelia. You can play with it, sure, is what you think I'm going to say. Make it cute (Amy), or cuter (Millie), complaining (Meelie), or French, I guess, like the movie (Amélie). You can step right into that name, is what I mean, and walk around. Swim with it or spill it on your shirt. Whisper it over like a sad, soft ache, or bark it out aloud like a mad, manic message: camellia, come heee-re, a-million, ah murder you, ye-eah.

P.P.S. AND YOU CAN TALK. "Just say the word." JUST SAY THE WORD? What kind of expression is that? WHAT WORD WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SAY ANYWAY? MORON? Letter from Emily to Charles.

We needed fish, really, but I could not speak Fish.

Bindy Mackenzie talks like a horse.

I feel like people are always speaking with their eyes, their bodies, their hands, gestures, intonation, and their words - only mostly all we hear are the words. And the words get in the way. So if we just spoke with our eyes we might get closer to the truth.

Could you just gather your shock and confusion into a little handkerchief-size and save it for later.