Quotes About Expression

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

La noblesse est affaire de vocabulaire.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.

I live my daydreams in music.

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

all dark and serious, really. You know, the simplest thing in the world is for white kids that are a little bit troubled to go really pompous on it all—like you get a splinter in your finger and suddenly you have a whole grindcore

I do not pretend to say whether or not dogs have a language of their own. Personally, I think they have, and a very comprehensive one, too. But I cannot prove it. No dog student, however, will deny that two dogs communicate their wishes to each other in some way by (or during) the swift contact of noses.

Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.

The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought.

The greatest challenge in art is in dealing with disappointment.

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .

He had a ponytail. But this was not a regular ponytail from the Sixties, not a ponytail for show or for fashion. It was more. It was a personal ponytail, something more defining and lasting. A personal thing is different, and all the books and all the magazines in the world can't tell you what that is.

Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sozinho.

I don't bother with rhyme. Rarely Are two trees the same, one beside the other. I think and write like flowers have color But with less perfection in my way of expressing myself Because I lack the divine simplicity Of wholly being only my exterior. I see and I'm moved, Moved the way water runs when the ground is sloping And what I write is as natural as the rising wind...