Quotes About Expression

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means.

autobiography is concerned with the consciousness of its creator in the process of creating himself.

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Il progresso della crescita artistica in molti media viene rallentato, come quei poveri alberi sui rilievi alpini che possono crescere solo di pochi centimetri per qualche settimana all'anno. Per gli scrittori e gli artisti che sono cresciuti in mezzo a caterve di artefatti e frammenti culturali, tutto questo fa parte della loro vita, ma quasi tutto è off-limit sul piano dell'espressione artistica perché è di «proprietà» di qualcuno.

Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.

When Nietzsche said, "God is dead", he himself immediately replaced God with a new God, the Superman. Who would bother with Nietzsche's philosophy if he pronounced God dead and then hanged himself? Nietzsche immediately resurrected God, hence God was never dead. God is always ready to be re-expressed. It's not the concept of God that's wrong, it's the concept of the wrong God, wrongly defined and understood.

Novelists get spooked by a blank page, yet the unconscious mind can create amazing, creative dreams from scratch every night. It never has writer's block. It's never stuck when it comes to thrilling storytelling.

When you have no voice, you don't exist

It seems symbolic that I can't write my name anymore," she told Mr. Nosy.

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At a certain pitch of religious experience, the heart just wants to sing; it breaks into song. Paradoxically, you could say when the silence finds its fullness, it comes to word.

Though what I have in mind', he said, 'is something far different. I thought if we listened to the music you could write down whatever you felt.' He turned on the gramophone.

Albert Einstein was asked one day by a friend "Do you believe that absolutely everything can be expressed scientifically?" "Yes, it would be possible," he replied, "but it would make no sense. It would be description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation in wave pressure." RONALD W. CLARK, Einstein: The Life and Times

I knew I would never be able to explain myself in the language of faith, a tongue I was still fumbling with.

I must admit I hadn't realized my knees were so sexy.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art

Las canciones son cometas que alguien agarra al vuelo y las sostiene un rato o ya no las suelta más nunca.

Your response is your own. It is created by no one else but you.

Sorrow and desolation have their songs as well as joy and peace. Slaves sing more to make themselves happy than to express their happiness

In the novel All Flesh Is Grass, one of Cliff's characters, Nancy, who was a writer herself, would say of that profession: "It's a thing you don't talk about—not until you're well along with it. There are so many things that can go wrong with writing. I don't want to be one of those pseudo-literary people who are always writing something they never finish, or talking about writing something that they never start.

David Foster Wallace believed that 'high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.' They are also, it is sad to say, an arena for the darker aspects of human nature.

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

But being a child, he'd never been asked for his opinion.

The Duchess looked at Chloe with a look that said, You had the chance to tell him, but you chose to carry on the lie. How do I know that the Duchess's look said this? Because there is an excellent book in my local library entitled One Thousand Doggy Expressions Explained by Professor L. Stone. I digress.