Quotes About Expression

The brands we like, and buy, and surround ourselves with—and by now you know I define a "brand" as anything from the music on our playlists to our shoes, to our sheets, to our toothpaste, to the artwork hanging on our walls—have the profoundest possible things to say about who we are.

If a living place can be likened to a city, the art on the wall, or the lack of art, is the first sign

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

It is a common saying that a letter is a dead messenger; for it can give no more than it hath. And no letter is written so exactly, that there is nothing lacking.

Your writings and head are disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write.

God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.

Although we cannot all be writers, we all want to be critics.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Gli uomini si vestono di nero e di grigio. Qualcuno osa con colori autunnali e camicie variopinte. E' il problema degli uomini: vogliono essere presi sul serio, quindi pensano di dover far credere che sono privi di fantasia.

Depuis le début de cette lettre, j'ai réfléchi à la violence. A la tienne, à la violence en général. Tu as réagi radicalement, entièrement, comme l'expression honnête de ce que tu es : un être capable de résister. Je te comprends mieux, d'autant plus que j'identifie cette violence en moi, par exemple, dans ma décision de m'isoler . Je ne frappe pas les gens, je les fais disparaitre

E poi ascoltare qualcuno che esprime opinioni eterodosse, al contempo violente e empatiche (la geniale equazione di cui solo pochi conoscono la formula), è un piacere troppo raro.

Muzica a fost inventat? pentru a compensa absen?a ploii.

Artists never finish a project — they just abandon it.

Grief expressed out loud, whether in or out of character, unchoreographed and honest, for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.

I've been so lonely, mother, I decided to converse with my belly button, it talks just like my sweetheart but sometimes does not obey. I've seen yours, it really has a big smile; I guess as you get older your navel becomes more expressive.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Most people just see a blank page and hear nothing. I see a universe waiting to be born and hear voices that want to speak...

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.