Quotes About Expression

You see, I'm – a writer, A man, who calls everything by its name, And steals the aroma from a living flower.

I paint with shapes.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

To write is to sell a ticket to escape, not from the truth, but into it.

Yes, everything's been written, but also, the thing you want to write, before you wrote it, was impossible to write. Otherwise it would already exist. Your writing makes it possible.

Destroying art is practice for destroying people.

There's a reason that whenever fascists come to power, the writers are among the first to go to jail.

Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?

There was something I wanted to feel, and I felt it only when I was writing.

My mother's most common childhood memory of me is standing next to me trying to be heard over the voice on the page. I didn't really commit to writing until I understood that it meant making that happen for someone else.

And so it is sometimes when I sing that the notes come from me as if I believed I could reach them where they rest, they sure of a reunion I still cannot imagine or believe in except, sometimes, in song.

as lover's complaint was noted, perhaps, by the one who knew to find it, and for the rest of the room, only artistic caprice—the

In some way I had never known how to express, I'd feared I would have to become the first of my kind, whatever my kind was, should I be allowed to survive—that which history has never seen before.

The word for her in Paris, a courtesan who had made it to the stage, was grue—it happened so often there was a word for it.

I cleared my throat and found my voice then, like a coin suddenly in your pocket that'd been missing when last you looked for it. Ernesto's

Infinite are man's expressions of beauty and love; open your eyes your ears and your heart to them and you will unite the peoples of the world." "Entre los hombres, infinitas son las expresiones de la belleza y del amor; al abrirse a ellas los ojos, los oídos y los corazones seunirán los pueblos del mundo.

There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly explain how much I want to hit you with a chair."

I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been my language, it was from the habit of using strong phrases to express my ideas; and, above all, from the interesting nature of the subject. I have ever condemned those cold, unfeeling hearts, which no object can animate. I condemn those indifferent mortals, who either never form opinions, or never make them known.

Perspicuity, therefore, requires not only that the ideas should be distinctly formed, but that they should be expressed by words distinctly and exclusively appropriate to them.

There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair.

My soul has ever abhorred the thought that a free man dared not speak the truth.

As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.

Crying is the most primitive mechanism the body has to relieve tension and pain.

The living organism expresses itself in movement more clearly than in words. But not alone in movement! In pose, in posture, in attitude and in every gesture, the organism speaks a language which antedates and transcends its verbal expression