Quotes About Expression

Hmmph! I can make a better dot than THAT!

Well, maybe I can't draw, but I CAN sign my name

When we speak, we speak for will!

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing.

Two caveats about this collective brainwashing need stressing. First, it did not necessarily change what older people thought, but it decisively changed what they would say or do.

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

What he loved about poetry: it could do in a few seconds what a novel did in days. A painting could be like that, too, and a sculpture. But sometimes you wanted something to take days and days.

The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know and feel and live, and all the things they don't know, and some of the things they hope, and they are honest about them all and put them on the canvas. What can be more serious?

What I can play is blues. She was never that into blues. I can salve with Lightning and Cotton, BB and Clapton and Stevie Ray. I can blast Son Seals singing Dear Son until the coyotes in the creek raise up a sympathetic sky ripping interpretation of the harmonica solo. Piercing howls and yelps. Sounds like it's killing them and also like they love it. Which when you get right down to it is the blues.

I never thought I would be a painter. That I might make a world and walk into it and forget myself. That art would be something I would not have any way of not doing.

You lose yourself and just about vanish and the painting asserts and fills and flows over the dam and down into the streambed of everything you have ever experienced and thought, and carries you both on a current that takes you into a country that neither of you have ever seen. Where you have never been.

He was not surprised that a tear hit the page, nor that he spread it on the paper with his thumb as he had before.

What more really can be at stake except life itself, which is why maybe artists are always equating the two and driving everybody crazy by insisting that art is life. Well. Cut us some slack. It's harder work than one might imagine, and riskier, and takes a very special and dear kind of mad person.

Ich lache. Ich johle. Ziemlich morbide. Jasper wirft mir von der Seite einen peinlich berührten Hundeblick zu.

He felt wreathed in the music of language, and as long as he heard it and could write it down, as long as the pulse was in his veins, he didn't care if he lived out of the back of a truck or in some crappy rent-by-the-week for the rest of his life.

I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it any different. I cry because in the universe there is something as beautiful as Kremer playing the Brains violin concerto.

A church characterized by a small experience of forgiveness will be characterized by a small expression of love.

adult language. Twang…heh, heh,

Sure you're not going to miss it, Roy?' 'I'll miss the camaraderie, but not the politics. Too much of that, these days. Know what I'm looking forward to most of all?' 'No – what?' 'It's being able to go into a pub and say what I really think, without having to worry that one of my bosses gets to hear about it,

I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.