Quotes About Expression

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Sex is emotion in motion.

A man's kiss is his signature.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way…We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.

Any one could write a book," said the taxi driver. "Yes, they could, but they DON'T," said Maeve Binchy

When the hauteur slipped from her face, what would I see? Despair, I imagine. Not the passive, withdrawn despair that keeps itself in silence but the raging kind that incinerates all before it.

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.

Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes.

Speak you mind, even if your voice shakes.

20. Fucking leaves everything as it is. Fucking may in no way interfere with the actual use of language. For it cannot give it any foundation either. It leaves everything as it is.

The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy.

You, reader, are alive today, reading this, because someone once adequately policed your mouth exploring.

At times I fake my enthusiasm. At others, I fear I am incapable of communicating the depth of it.

Words change depending on who speaks them; there is no cure.

As if keening on your knees were somehow obscene As if there were a control so marvelous you could teach it to eat pain.

95. But please don't write again to tell me how you have woken up weeping. I already know how you are in love with your weeping.

I feel high on the knowledge that I can talk as much as I want to, as quickly as I want to, in any direction that I want to, without anyone overtly rolling her eyes at me or suggesting I go to speech therapy. I'm not saying this is good pedagogy. I am saying that its pleasures are deep.

Barthes found the exit to this merry-go-round by reminding himself that "it is language which is assertive, not he." It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature by "add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty

Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.