Quotes About Expression

So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.

Well, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday and tell the world that everything's okay / But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back / 'Til things are brighter, I'm the man in black.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

To compose poetry is about listening, ...not to contrive, it is, so to speak, about bringing forth something that already exists-this is why when one reads great poetry, when often gets this 'I-new-all-of-this-already, I-just-didn't-express-it' feeling. Language listens to itself.

what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in it...

one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often than not the picture'll be ruined...

what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in it..." ? Jon Fosse

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession…. Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Self-Reliance

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion.

We ain't dependent on social media to reveal our faith and joy. It shows from inside out, for real.

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

No family is safe when I sashay.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.

The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I'm much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy.