Quotes About Expression

suppressing a feeling doesn't make it go away; it only pushes it deeper into the unconscious. By this action we internalize the problem.

Every chronic muscular tension in the body has associated with it sadness, fear, and anger. Since tension is a restriction of our being, it makes us sad. It also makes us angry to be so limited. And we are frightened to show our sadness or express our anger, so we stay locked in a diminished state of being and tied to our fate.

Mabel Elsworth Todd,The Thinking Body,

El proceso creativo frecuentemente conlleva algún dolor en el esfuerzo por lograr que una concepción dé frutos.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

Most diaries are moans in writing, even when the person writing them is happy.

A person can write five million words about itself, and forget to tell you its name. Or its sex. People don't include obvious identifiers in diaries: things such as what they're called or where their home is. They are simply 'I' who lives.

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Creative ideas in people's minds, but they fall into the trap of fear or rejection. Create a free judgment Wednesday and you spawn a thread creation.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot,The last and greatest art—the art to blot.

Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride!They had no poet, and they died.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. False Eloquence, like the Prismatic Glass, Its gawdy Colours spreads on ev'ry place; The Face of Nature was no more Survey, All glares alike, without Distinction gay: But true Expression, like th' unchanging Sun, Clears, and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all Objects, but it alters none.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Las palabras son como las hojas; cuando abundan, poco fruto hay entre ellas.

She sins with poets through pure love of wit