Quotes About Expression

Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

The message of great art is to disturb.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I'm singing - whatever I'm singing. I missed it when I left it.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.

Creative artists have great passion.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.