Quotes About Expression

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Frequently, trite ideas or unimaginative translation of those ideas is the result not of poor subject matter but of poor interpretation of a problem.

The visual statement, on the other hand, which seeks to express the essence of an idea, and which is based on function, fantasy, and analytic judgment, is likely to be not only unique but meaningful and memorable as well.

If you meet a fencing-master on the road, you may give him your sword, If you meet a poet, you may offer him your poem. When you meet others, say only a part of what you intend. Never give the whole thing at once.

Feel the fine qualities of creativity permeating your breasts and assuming delicate configurations.

Wherever satisfaction is found, in whatever act, actualize this.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

His face was frozen in a grimace, as if he had woken from a bad dream only to find that he had not been asleep at all.

being gay is a fantastic idea.

I am not!" said the guy's girlfriend, who was wearing a very short skirt, very high heels and the kind of complicated hairstyle that looks like it needs blueprints and a construction crew.

Anybody can be anybody, he told himself as he eased his body down onto Devin's, the blunt pain of a beautiful pleasure wedging him open.

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

This distinction between form and experience is not pedantic, but fundamental: a form can express the Transcendent, an experience cannot. A form can express the common ground in which all things share. An experience can only express one man's reaction to that common ground.

El estilo trascendental no es una experiencia, sino una forma. El estilo trascendental no pretende hacer que el espectador comparta las lágrimas de Hirayama; lo que intenta es purgar esas lágrimas e integrarlas en una forma más extensa.

I am an old man. I am entitled, am I not, to say what I think?—and of course to stray from the point.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

At the end of the day "Love Guns" wasn't about guns--I was just singing about my dick.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

I'd like to hear your opinion on this piece of Beethoven. And remember, it is not Beethoven who is being examined here.

folks with NPD have shallow emotional lives because so much must remain hidden, both from themselves and from others. This shallowness makes them hard to get to know, because there doesn't seem to be much of a real person beneath the façade. This is the opposite of most people with BPD, who feel and express a very wide range of emotions.

The right to say 'no' strengthens emotional boundaries. So does the freedom to say 'yes,' respect for feelings, acceptance of differences, and permission for expression.

Some people with the conventional type of BPD have the opposite problem: they feel unable to express their anger at all.

writes that people with BPD who under-express anger "fear they will lose control if they express even the slightest anger, and at other times they fear that targets of even minor anger expression will retaliate.