Quotes About Expression

Captain Azia," he said, introducing himself. "The entire Dalbreck army has been searching for you…" Something about his expression was all wrong. And then falling down on one knee, he added, "Your Majesty.

Eyes don't breath. I know that much. But her eyes look breathless

Stop cutting me off!" he yelled. The steel of his eyes sparkled with warning. "The least you can do is give me a chance to speak! We're gonna talk!

Write it down, he had told me. Write down every word one you get there, Before the truth is forgotten And now we do, at least the parts we remember.

Luella, she kept gettin' paler and paler, and she never took her eyes off my face. There was somethin' awful about the way she looked at me and never spoke a word.

I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.

What if some games, and the more general concept of 'play,' not only provide outlets for entertainment but also function as means for creative expression, as instruments for conceptual thinking, or as tools to help examine or work through social issues.

Games are legitimate forms of media, human expression, and cultural importance

Every so often a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it. Picasso did it with cubism, then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. —Willem de Kooning

The abstract artist, he said, would be repeatedly challenged by such skeptics asking, "'What does it mean?'… 'Is it a sky, a house, a horse?'" To which they should respond with confidence and honesty, "'No, it is a painting.'"29

the artist through his or her work revealed pure spirit so that men mired in the bitter reality of daily life might find the strength to continue.30

An artist is a conduit for a vision that is as uniquely her own as a fingerprint, and unrecognizable until it appears.

My ambition was to live like music.

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Perhaps it is the intrusion of sexuality that marks the end of precision.

Oh, there are times, Miss Norah, when I talk to myself--which is bad--or yarn to old Turpentine, my snake, just to hear the sound of words again.

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

She did look sad. Not sad, exactly

asked? That letter you mailed seemed pretty

How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked. 'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do any more to it. And then you need to stop because if you don't, you will spoil it.

Nee!' Laura schreeuwde bijna. 'Ik snij mijzelf nooit meer!

Do you ever speak a known language? Sanskrit, perhaps?

Niggas are in paris

T. S. Eliot taught us you can write about your nervous breakdown, but call it 'The Wasteland' and make it big and crazy enough to hide behind.