Quotes About Expression

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

We speak with our lips to explain, with our throats to convince.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Fashion is never wrong.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.

We need ritual because it is an expression of the fact that we recognize the difficulty of creating a different and special kind of community. A community that doesn't have a ritual cannot exist. A corporate community is not a community. It's a conglomeration of individuals in the service of an insatiable soulless entity.

The record stated, I am the record

Every family has its own unique song. Notice what yours is, and sing it loudly and proudly.

His voice. Never had she heard anything like it, an undulating sound like fine gravel sifted through raw silk.

Expression triumphant and fierce, arms lifted to the night sky as if it were hers to rule, who was this stunning creature?

Boys don't cry, but men do.

He loved to draw. Animals pouncing mostly. And trees. Always lone trees in black landscapes.