Quotes About Expression

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

That was the absolute worst catch phrase I've ever heard in the history of Monday Night Raw.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

Literature is the history of the soul.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Never say more than is necessary.

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.