Quotes About Expression

Mon vœu, quand j'ai commencé à écrire, a été d'être un écrivain roumain. Comme tant d'autres avant moi, qu'ils aient été grecs (I[on] L[uca] Caragiale, Alexandru A. Philippide), arméniens (Garabet Ibr?ileanu), juifs (Mihail Sebastian, Max Blecher) ou de bien d'autres origines, depuis le Géorgien Antim Ivireanul, jusqu'au « russe » Nichita St?nescu.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and then in a strange way they become commitments which one has to live. I have gained a deep respect for the demonic power of the word. Words are not idle. They have consequences.

The opposite of war, the true war, is poetry

What is always speaking silently is the body.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Nina said, "Have regular facial expressions." That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of bad moods.

A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory.

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate him and change him in diverse ways.

One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist.

Simbolicul incit?, stimuleaz? - înduio??torul emo?ioneaz? ?i mi?c?.

Arta este: des?vâr?irea activit??ii noastre - a voi într-un anume fel - potrivit unei idei - a voi ?i a f?ptui e aici acela?i lucru. Numai prin exersarea repetat? a activit??ii noastre, ce devine tot mai precis? ?i mai viguroas?, apare arta.

Der mystische Ausdruck ist ein Gedankenreiz mehr. Alle Wahrheit ist uralt. Der Reiz der Neuheit liegt nur in den Variationen des Ausdrucks. Je kontrastierender die Erscheinung, desto größer die Freude Des Wiedererkennens.