Quotes About Expression

I ethvert menneskes liv er der områder, som endnu ingen har fulgt dem ind i. Det er ikke-kærlighedens isolerede zoner. Her standser foden. Den stivner i en evig uforløst gebærde,

Det gælder om at blive fuldt og helt identisk med intensiteten i det udtrykskrævende liv. Alt det, der lever i os, ønsker at blive medinddraget.

In Berlin, it seems, in the end everything becomes either art and/or memorial

when you're writing programs you need to be able to name your identifiers well. And your prose has to be good. I'd feel lost without a good dictionary.

I always wish people would comment more, though the thing that makes me cringe is when the comment is the name of the function rephrased. Function's called push_stack and the comment says, "This pushes to the stack." Thank you.

Then there's a third thing, which may seem like a small thing but I don't think it is. Which is that in an infix world, every operator is next to both of its operands. In a prefix world it isn't. You have to do more work to see the other operand.

A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.

His pain. His own. He made it.

You have your words, and I have mine.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

God was singing through this little man to all the world.

Os colarinhos-brancos, os moderadores e críticos cresceram em quase toda parte à custa dos criativos e deixam-se festejar como os verdadeiros criadores.

I am absolutely a believer. Faith and life are synonymous functions. If you don't believe, you can't finish a sentence, for example. Speechlessness is the clearest sign of depression. In this respect, depression and disbelief converge.

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

Never will I succeed in putting as much strength in a portrait as there is in a head. The mere fact of living demands such willpower and energy … ALBERTO GIACOMETTI

Beautiful landscapes are no use for good paintings.

Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

David," I said, "no matter what my intentions are, everything I write winds up turning into fiction, including my letters to friends.

I quote Frank O'Connor to my students: that when you are writing a story, at some point the story must take over. You are not going to be able to control it. I think this is true. O'Connor said he thought Joyce controls his stories too tightly—"Whoever heard of a Joyce story taking over?" he asked—and that there is a deadness about them. You have got to keep the story opened up, let the story take over at some point.