Quotes About Expression

When he was a little boy his mother kept him in dresses and long curls; then she dressed him in Scottish regalia. Eventually, at the age of seven, he wore pants—short pants that were part of miniature sailor suits.

The dividing line between SM sex and "vanilla" sex can sometimes be arbitrary.

Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with others, with those who don't originate from the planet of words and language. Other things do happen, but we don't know what they are until we write about them, or think about them in words, or remember them in phrases. - From "Why She Writes

A song moves a story fast or slow like the river moves the water.

Termite can imitate almost anything," I say. "Things just sound more like music in his version. Sounds instead of words.

His eyes tightened a little at the corners. "I told you a

You gotta have a body.

It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further example of human creativity. As David Crystal has expressed it: 'it..is the latest manifestation of the human ability to be linguistically creative... In texting, we are seeing, in a small way, language in evolution...

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Art is a fruit that grows in man.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born, I have confidence in it (automatic painting). I do not think about it. The forms arrive pleasant, or strange, hostile, inexplicable, mute, or drowsy. They are born from themselves. It seems to me as if all I do is move my hands.

Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature.

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

Il parle couramment la vérité, mais personne ne le comprend car il use d'une langue morte.

Style can make complicated things seem simple, or simple things complicated.

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.