Quotes About Expression

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

The best things in life are crazy.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

Art is science in the flesh.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.