Quotes About Expression

Aunque se desborde, la literatura es siempre un orden.

Que Neruda me perdone, pero a veces sucede que me canso de ser mujer.

Sucede que a veces en el matrimonio las palabras se gastan, que a fuerza de repetirlas van vaciándose lentamente, perdiendo su sentido. No hay caso en volver a emplearlas, el significado de ellas ya no dice lo que semánticamente debiera decir. La pareja puede ser una instancia involuntaria de pérdida de lenguaje.

Ciertos días yo amanecía llena de palabras

I never dreamed that one day it would be one of my favorite everyday words. Fuck this, fucking that, don't give a fuck. I love it. It's perfect for emphasis!

Perhaps without my always being fully conscious of it, the dishes continued to evolve, moving always toward a simpler, clearer expression of their primary flavors, and toward a steadily diminishing dependence on cooking fat.

I'm completely on board with fashion as an expression of individuality, but T'Chia seemed to be expressing several individuals.

language and attitude

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

Design follows drama

Art does many things, but for me where art is at its best is in providing a window into the way another mind works.

Why do we as humans create art? Why is Richter's work regarded as art while a book of Dulux colour samples is not?

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on,' he wrote in describing his method, 'as long as something is said. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.

Busby Berkeley

channels were

It was a lot to convey with a look, but sometimes words murdered ideas. He

We couldn't arrest him if he was shooting strangers with one hand while jerking off into the American flag with the other.

She said, "'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…'" She parted the curtains, looked out at the brick wall opposite and the street below. "Never really understood the poem, but I like the way the words taste.

Small talk wasn't his thing, and he didn't have the knack for storytelling. There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.

Because artists are more dangerous than murderers. The most prolific serial killer might have dozens of victims, but poets can lay low entire generations.

Whatever goes down, whatever turns up—make food and music and dance and story out of it.