Quotes About Expression

Heldmann suggests paraphrasing, or repeating, the key points of the speaker's statements to show that you want to understand what the person is saying. Develop your own style of doing this so it comes across naturally.

a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

Back then his usual outfit was too-tight jeans, T-shirts with slogans intended to cause offence like 'So many Christians, so few lions', and cowboy boots.

How does Forrest Gump have sex? What could be more of a revelation about a character than watching them have sex? That says a lot about them, how they touch another person in bed.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Man creates what he is.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.

Her expression was pleasant, but a trifle crafty, like Me Wolf at the window of the Three Pigs' house, asking to be let in.

One evening Bowie vented his frustration, says Pitt, by telling him, "I'm going to write some Top Ten rubbish," then proceeded to write a song that was neither. "Let Me Sleep Beside You" would be his first collaboration with Tony Visconti, the producer with whom he's most associated; the finest song Bowie had written to that point, it also became the cause of his biggest artistic setback.

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.

How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?

Skilled verse is the work of a profound skeptic.

To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.

J'ai toujours fait mes vers en m'observant les faire.

The poem: a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.

La plupart sont aveugles dans cet univers du langage; sourds aux mots qu'ils emploient. Leurs paroles ne sont qu'expédients; et l'expression pour eux n'est qu'un plus court chemin : ce minimum définit l'usage purement pratique du langage. Être compris, ---comprendre, --- sont les bornes entre lesquelles se resserre de plus en plus ce langage pratique, c'est-à-dire, abstrait.

A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.