Quotes About Expression

I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write, 'You are here.' I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

I don't have a philosophy. I have a camera.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Socrates should have written comics.

Don't write to sell, write to tell.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist's most profound life experiences.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.