Quotes About Expression

Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will

sweating like demons they scream through our speakers, but we leave the sound on cuz silence is harder and no one's the killer and no one's the martyr. The world that has made us can no longer contain us.

I love you' I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face ... My fear was a greater one--that she won't say it back.

He bursts into tears, and not some manlike tears either, where you pretend you're brushing something off your face and, incidentally, wipe a tear. Nope. He starts bawling like a kid who spilled his Slushie...

What? Listen,you..." And then, strangely enough, she calls me a female dog.

Meg makes a face and lays her hand on my arm. "And why, exactly, would John want to see Eurotrash?" "Hello?" Ryan says. "Because he's a seventeen-year old guy with normal male urges, and she's got-" He holds both hands out from his chest. "Really pretty eyes," I complete his sentence.

It's intriguing. I've always felt like a freak myself. But what would it be like, to wear my freakishness on the outside, to have it be obvious to the world?

The word felt good, liberating. So, I repeat it. "Fuck." Then, again. And again. Because it made me someone else, someone normal and happy, someone who used words like that, like St. John. I repeated it, over and over until she walked away, wounded. Then, I was glad. And still, I kept repeating it, because that was the only thing that kept me from crying.

Always, there was music.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

Certainly a painting can be reductionistically described by its physical properties only: its shape, the paint, the design, and so forth. But every artwork that exists is both an individual thing, a whole unto itself, and simultaneously a part of the matrix of forces that brought it into being.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Creo que lo único que quieres hacer cuando realmente has amado algo es transmitir su recuerdo a otros.

The emperor of China asked his court painter, «What's easy to paint and what's hard to paint?» and the answer was «Dogs are difficult, demons are easy.»

You can write anything you want on the internet, and it has the potential to become famous

My biggest fear is that the world may become drowned in artistic mediocrity.

It is one thing to get all the notes right; any number of unsocialized conservatory prodigies can do that. It is another thing to play the thoughts within the notes, the light around them, the darkness behind them, the silence at the end of the phrase. That is what inspires awe.

There is much to be said for the artwork that answers horror by rejecting or transcending it.

O melhor tipo de interpretação clássica não é um recuo para o passado, mas uma intensificação do presente

Beauty is the PR campaign of the soul.

How easy it is for men to talk about beauty, and how subtly intimidating when they do.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

I once stirred thunder in the skies, And now, unlike the days of yore - Just tears in a drunken poet's eyes And laughter - from some whore.