Quotes About Expression

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so he felt ulfire to be wild and painful, and jale dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous.

Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell "Another sensibility like mine exists.

This [Welsh] language seems to be more particularly adapted for poetry; which, however extraordinary it may seem to some, on account of the multiplicity of gutturals and consonants with which it abounds, has the softness and harmony of the Italian, with the majesty and expression of the Greek.

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

Falling in love is thus the most conformist method of being an individual. Conversely, falling in love is the most original and spontaneous way to conform, perhaps the only way of conforming to social demands that will never make you look like a conformist. It is the one way that you can behave like everyone else and still claim, at the same time, that you did it your way.

Words his soul danced to.

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.

I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.

Aaronow: Yes. I mean are you actually talking about this, or are we just…Moss: No, we're just…Aaronow: We're just "talking" about it.Moss: We're just speaking about it. (Pause.) As an idea.Aaronow: As an idea.Moss: Yes.Aaronow: We're not actually talking about it.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

If God had wanted you to wear earrings, he'd have made you a girl.

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Let the God within you express itself through you in the world without.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.