Quotes About Expression

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern Kunst macht sichtbar.

I imagined face and genitals to be the corresponding poles of the female sex, when girls wept I thought of pudenda weeping in unison.

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.

If the first requirement of a civilisation is the possession of its own language, the second must be the pursuit of a literary tradition. Books are, in historian Barbara Tuchman's words, the carriers of civilisation.

Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

It is not a carol of joy or glee,But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core…I know why the caged bird sings!

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.

I thought of Jack Nicholson telling Shirley MacLaine that a stiff drink "might kill the bug you got up your ass." I thought of John Riggins, the great, wild running back of the Redskins, telling Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at a White House dinner to "loosen up, Sandy baby.

The biggest excuse for film is that it is a film. It's a game, an art for a bunch of people who sit in a dark theatre. The light hits them and then they go home, and it's more or less over. But a good film, or a cautionary one . . . A darkened theater is a safe place to say things that mean something.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow – just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they right it down. It's simple.

Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.

Me? I'm a mocker!

I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.