Quotes About Expression

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty,you know you're an artist.

The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.

There is not a great deal of pleasure in only seeing what someone else considers their best pictures.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional'.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

We fear being alone if we express our uniqueness because we lack self esteem and inner security.

Real freedom - where I could think the unthinkable and say the unstable and I give a damn what people made of it. How many allow themselves that priceless gift? And get it is there for the taking whenever they choose.

Showing emotion was bad. Unless it was fake, then it was okay.

K' is for communications.

Maya Soetoro-Ng declined comment to a reporter, but a family friend explained that "she was furious" over Barack's comments about their grandmother. His characterization of her "seemed completely gratuitous, even cruel," one critic rightly thought, and one of the late Stanley Dunham's close friends acidly remarked, "I have a far better opinion of both Stan and Madelyn than I have heard from Barry's speeches.

It is not uncommon for black athletes, particularly those who are demonstrative, animated, and passionate, to be called out as selfish, mean, destructive, crazy, difficult, and otherwise not good teammates.

The act of writing, especially of putting pen to paper, has always had a sacred quality. The process by which one creates a paragraph-of conceptualizing, framing, and sequencing a moment in time-is the same process that governs some of the most sophisticated psychotherapies.