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Quotes About Expression

I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
~ Larry David
Good writing comes from good talent.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
~ Edward Albee
Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Everyday's a good day when you paint
~ Bob Ross
All good art is an indiscretion.
~ Tennessee Williams
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
~ Albert Camus
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
~ Louis Kahn
Trying to force creativity is never good.
~ Sarah McLachlan
On a good day I write, all day.
~ Nick Flynn
In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
~ Jean-Georges Noverre
It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
~ Patti Smith
Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.
~ Zhang Xiaogang
I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.
~ Eddie Vedder
Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.
~ Devendra Banhart
So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.
~ Miles Kington
In art, the best is good enough.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
~ Saul Bellow
Rock and roll is about having a good time.
~ Andy Biersack
I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?
~ David Eddings
I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.
~ Debra Winger