Quotes About Expression

If you can not be a poet, be the poem.

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

I have a liberal arts English degree, so I was brought up thinking that's what it was all about, and I had to learn that sometimes, or often times, art just is. It's not attempting at anything. It's not providing answers. I had to grow up a little bit before I got to that.

He said all I could do was tell them, so that is what I did, I told them all the long the short and the tall

it's bad for you to hold in your feelings too much. You've a right to them.

Writers possess only four tools: research, experience, empathy, and imagination. Fortunately, whole worlds can be built from them.

To paraphrase one of my favorite math professors: The difference between great artists, and artists who are not so great, is that great artists think deeply about simple things.

Those who oppose the religious right would have a much easier time if all of the movement's leaders expressed themselves as freely as [Brad] Keena. Here's hoping his star rises.

Sade's ultimate achievement was to make sex the choicest expression of obscene cruelty and absolute, despotic power.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin." --Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch

It had occurred to her that the ultimate expression of Tom Wolfe's 'saturation reporting' was possibly at hand: the copycat murder of the journalist, with the murderer finishing the piece and filing it, complete with photographs and videos.

Speak out, you got to speak out against The madness, you got to speak your mind, If you dare

John Coltrane, still playing at top intensity and volume, totally into it. He blew me out so bad I slid down the wall. The guy was still playing his solo. He hadn't stopped. I don't think he ever knew that I was in that room. He never saw that little ofay kid in the corner, you know, but he totally turned my mind to Jell-O at that point and that was my John Coltrane experience.

People sometimes say: 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' That's true. But language is never far away. To talk about the picture, you may need a thousand words.

Intonation is the use of pitch to convey meaning in a language. It has been described as the music or melody of speech.

Information is always being left out, therefore, when speech is written down. And conversely, information is always being added when a written text is spoken aloud.

We'll never get them to notice us if we say ordinary things in an ordinary way.

Nothing's boring if it's in your soul…

She thought a smile that eventually touched her lips.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.