Quotes About Expression

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.

I'm not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about 'Oh, let's exchange numbers' and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don't see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

Every new generation seems to have to go through its Doors rite of passage.

Well, writing for me had always been my first love and what I leaned on as a way to kind of endure difficult passages.

I am brazen. For me, creating means regurgitating, distorting, and assembling everything that has passed through me and continues to do so.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

I've always felt that there's a Catskills comic who lives in my head and is constantly trying to get out. There's all these jokes that have been passed down from Jewish generation to Jewish generation, which I love but which I've always made fun of.

When my father passed away, my mom didn't really know what to do and how to deal with it for me, so she put me in extracurricular classes, one of them being theater.

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished.

I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

I grew up around a lot of artists and people passing through. I learned so much from them. I felt the safest with them - and the most endangered.

Whatever time we're passing through, there will always be music.

Nudists have no fashion sense.

Art has little to do with made things, but rather concerns a state of mind, a way of being, a gesture that cannot be betrayed, a life

Mrrrp? To anyone else in the Cahill universe, the high-pitched sound of the pet Egyptian Mau had a hundred different meanings: the playful mrrp , the I-want-red-snapper mrrp , the that-wasn't-enough-red-snapper mrrp , the thank-you-for-the-meager-portion-of-red-snapper mrrp . And on and on. But to Ian Kabra's ears, each was the I-hate-you-with-all-my-soul mrrp .

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