Quotes About Expression

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.