Quotes About Expression

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that control the modern world, may set it free to do the only thing that in this age it can do -to keep the neglected parts.

Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

'The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first.

Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry.