Quotes About Expression

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

You need the art in order to love the life.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

There is no good word for stomach ; just as there is no good word for girlfriend . Stomach is to girlfriend as belly is to lover , and as abdomen is to consort , and as middle is to petite amie .

I'm overreacting, probably," Sophie says. "I just get a little bored with the abused-women-equals-art thing. It just all seems a bit eighties to me. Do you know what I mean?

But I never did manage to tell you because I could never quite put the words together to express something so complex and sordid and exciting and stupid,. I still wonder how that conversation might have gone.

loves it, in fact, as much as anything she has ever done. After the brain deadening years of child-rearing, she feels like she is waking up, feels as if her mind is stirring after a long sleep, spluttering and juddering into motion. She enjoys the hours spent in the red light of the darkroom too, thrills (more than she

I decided i want to be a manga artist when i grow up. If you want to know why, it's because of you. I know that you hurt a lot inside. An I know that manga makes you happy. If i can make manga, maybe I can help people like you be happy.

He had an anxious smile on his face. And he was clutching a letter in his hand.

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

Love isn't something you have, it's something you do.

Music not only saved my life, it gave me a life

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

My relationship with my muse is a delicate one at the best of times and I feel that it is my duty to protect her from influences that may offend her fragile nature. She comes to me with the gift of song and in return I treat her with the respect I feel she deserves — in this case this means not subjecting her to the indignities of judgement and competition.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much of a muse, but then, I weren't much of a poet.

I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Everything in our age conspires to turn the writer and every other kind of artist as well, into a minor official, working on themes handed down from above and never telling what seems to him the whole of the truth.

Citizens exercised parrhesia, which translates as 'all speech', or sometimes 'true speech'.