Quotes About Expression

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.