Quotes About Expression

map is similar to a list comprehension but is more limited because it requires a function instead of an arbitrary expression.

freedom of expression is great for art, but lousy for engineering.

Because writing teaches writers to write, this

I always thought being a writer was the highest calling there was. Don't you?" - author Mark Merlis

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

Sure, I could give advice I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

After she went to school, they taught her the correct way to draw, and all the life went out of her art.

I myself am the apocalypse of which I speak.

If your imagination is superior to the rules, go beyond the rules.

I don't like to talk about my songs. It's self-defeating, it is the antithesis of what a songwriter wants to do. He writes a song so he doesn't have to talk about it.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

You've got sadness in you, I've got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.

Pictures must be miraculous.

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

In a very real way, an author's creations are given over to others, the way a mother sends her children out into the larger world.

Creative imagination is a mystery. If you let it flow, it will happen, & you won't know how the idea came to you. It will just materialize.

I don't care about the rules of grammar so long as my characters' words sound true to life and bite heavily.

If you're a writer, you're not a short order cook. Forget what people want. Write what you want to write, be true to yourself

Have the courage to write a lousy first draft.