Quotes About Expression

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

Lo raro es que las palabras no tengan más consecuencias nefastas de las que normalmente tienen. O tal vez no lo sabemos suficientemente, creemos que no tienen tantas y todo es un desastre perpetuo debido a lo que decimos.

He had a penchant for idioms, sayings, proverbs and the like; some of which he invented or used in a way that was incomprehensible to me

las palabras son casi siempre retóricas o excesivas o metafóricas y por lo tanto inexactas

Lo que sucede no sucede del todo hasta que no se descubre, hasta que no se dice y hasta que no se sabe.

Cuando estás triste, no hay nada como Adele para ponerte aún peor.

las palabras nunca son fruto del azar. Que todas tienen un pasado, una especie de genética que las delata. —Eso es lo que estudia la etimología...

Escribir es renunciar a lo que uno es y ponerse al servicio de vidas ajenas que te susurran al oído.

La motivación para escribir un buen libro la da el tener algo importante que contar.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

Tullius Cicero said: "The eyes are the window to the soul.

People still love a well-delivered talk; the top professional speakers charge more per person than a Bruce Springsteen concert.

You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters.

Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren't mine, are at least different from the norm.

Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.

Fictional characters soon take on a life of their own. They run with the bit between their teeth.

Writers are always pirates, marauding, taking whatever pleases them from others, shaping these stolen goods to our purposes.