Quotes About Expression

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

Art is science made clear.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

There must be a wound inside the words that communicates.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

trincasse, a tagarela Foi valer-se

Libertatea este o chestiune de metod?. Adev?rul punea cu totul alte probleme. Cred c? n-a? putea s? m? exprim mai bine decât folosind un cuvânt cam provocator, adev?rul eram noi.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

La belleza es pura secreción de la cultura como los cálculos lo son del riñón

L'art ne vient pas coucher dans les lits qu'on a faits pour lui ; il se sauve aussitôt qu'on prononce son nom »

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

She looks like an advertisement for vitamins that make you sullen.

Vomiting isn't bad either, take note. It is, in certain more obvious respects, a show of force. I have always liked this story 'A man holding with one hand to a one-way sign is vomiting into the gutter, another man goes past near him and tells him: "If you only knew how much I agree with you.

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.