Quotes About Expression

I make movies I want to see.

WRITER Actors come and go, pal—you guys are the furniture, okay? What I write is the house. Let's not get all precious about it . . .

The songs he chose reflected that same withdrawn, private man, but this man had the gift of expressing his inner soulscape through the medium of some of the 20th century's finest songwriters, from Rodgers and Hart to Antonio Carlos Jobim to Jimmy Webb, and as always, making those songs his own.

The keystone of any artistic construction is contained in that simple question, what is the intention?

Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the strongest possible bias toward exposition: a sophisticated ability to think conceptually, deductively and sequentially; a high valuation of reason and order; an abhorrence of contradiction; a large capacity for detachment and objectivity; and a tolerance for delayed response.

although culture is a creation of speech, it is recreated anew by every medium of communication—from painting to hieroglyphs to the alphabet to television. Each medium, like language itself, makes possible a unique mode of discourse by providing a new orientation for thought, for expression, for sensibility.

But to the modern mind, resonating with different media-metaphors, the truth in economics is believed to be best discovered and expressed in numbers. Perhaps it is.

the concept of truth is intimately linked to the biases of forms of expression.

the concept of truth is intimately linked to the biases of forms of expression. Truth does not, and never has, come unadorned. It must appear in its proper clothing or it is not acknowledged, which is a way of saying that the "truth" is a kind of cultural prejudice. Each culture conceives of it as being most authentically expressed in certain symbolic forms that another culture may regard as trivial or irrelevant.

It is naive to suppose that something that has been expressed in one form can be expressed in another without significantly changing its meaning, texture or value. Much prose translates fairly well from one language to another, but we know that poetry does not; we may get a rough idea of the sense of a translated poem but usually everything else is lost, especially that which makes it an object of beauty. The translation makes it into something it was not.

Thou shalt not write down thy principles, still less print them, lest thou shall be entrapped by them for all time.

The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author

other forms of conversation will always remain. Speech, for example, and writing.

I mean only to call attention to the fact that there is a certain measure of arbitrariness in the forms that truth-telling may take.

Truth does not, and never has, come unadorned. It must appear in its proper clothing or it is not acknowledged, which is a way of saying that the "truth" is a kind of cultural prejudice. Each culture conceives of it as being most authentically expressed in certain symbolic forms that another culture may regard as trivial or irrelevant.

It is in the nature of the medium that it must suppress the content of ideas in order to accommodate the requirements of visual interest;

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

Prancers are almost always gay.

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

Sketchbooks and journals are the street lamps that illuminate the artist's journey.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.