Quotes About Expression

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

Que el músculo del corazón lance a los labios, como siempre, para siempre, ese dibujito de la sonrisa.

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Words," said the host, at length, "is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.

Word's is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

You can put anything into words, except your own life

If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line." [ Paris Review , interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]

Both made the completion of the chain possible by making themselves and their wants known to a lot of people.

Music is the soul of language.

There is only one expression for truth: the thought which repudiates injustice. If insistence on the good sides of life is not sublated in the negative whole, it transfigures its own opposite: violence.

If you try to bring 'teen drama ' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.