Quotes About Expression

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.