Quotes About Expression

It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

As in zoology, monsters exist in art. It is the pervert of the formation of words, lines, colors, and sounds.

They paint what they see and we paint what we are watching.

At these moments sufferers desperately want to escape from their holes, the silence and loneliness, and return to the world we share with others… At these moments, language, the means of expression we are most comfortable with, becomes truly therapeutic – a form of medicine that has the power to relieve our suffering

You better go to someone else for words. All I know is, there are some drums that sound good together and some that don't. I think we sound good together.

E=mc2 is even better than the best poetry: "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

An orgy of words, after all, is still an orgy.

Nineties style isn't.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences together, alienates us as surely as the ramblings of a madman on a bus.

He [Huxley] once explained that his aim as a novelist was 'to arrive, technically, at a perfect fusion of the novel and the essay', arguing that the novel should be like a holdall, bursting with opinion and arresting ideas.

We aren't a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart. Her voice. So sing. (556)

The species greatest harvest ? words.

He read vividly.