Quotes About Expression

An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you've already become part of the system. It's how it works.

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.