Quotes About Expression

If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

I believe in looseness.

Oh, to say something so fine, so memorable, that it carries across time, oceans, and languages!

Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Quotation lovers love rare words.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Johnny zingt geen liedjes. Johnny is zelf een liedje.

Art brings the unseen into the world. That's why I don't paint what I see, or things based on old paintings. I paint what I dream. I'm bringing the other world into this one.

The sheer act of persistently expressing our thoughts on some subject causes us to learn more about that subject, even when no new information has been provided from without.

Whenever you write down a perception or an idea, you reinforce the behavior of being perceptive or creative. Whenever you fail to describe or record such insights, you reinforce the behavior of being unperceptive and uncreative. Simple, isn't it?

what is expressed by the learner is a hundred times more productive learning than what is expressed to the learner

Sometimes people escape from childhood traumas by splitting into a whole spectrum of different, fully functioning identities, a condition known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). So distinct are these personalities that MPD victims will have not only different handwriting styles, artistic talents, and knowledge of foreign languages, but even different allergies, illnesses, and reactions to drugs, depending upon which personality they are "using" at the moment.

The need to express ourselves at all costs is hard-wired into our brains as deeply as our drive for food or sex.

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said ó namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable.It fell to me to express it.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another.

Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

The United States is a land of free speech. No where is speech freer—not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.