Quotes About Expression

Polaire! The agitating and agitated Polaire! The tiny slip of a woman that you know, with the waist slender to the point of pain, of screaming out loud, of breaking in two, in a spasmically tight bodice, the prettiest slimness ...

i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

In the next decade we may see more young people who know just the right emoji for a situation—but not the right facial expression.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

[H]e sang words without sense, but their tone went to his heart...

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

People are so codified - it's sad.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

I could not think without writing.

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing.

Le nom d'amant peut-être offense son courage; Mais il en a les yeux, s'il n'en a le langage.

What was there in the world more Western than Mozart, more civilized, more perfect? No eight hundred thousand voices could drone their chant to Mozart's notes. Mozart had never written to stir the masses, but to touch the heart of each single human being, in his private self.

Now, it's a known fact that racism comes in two forms: that practiced by whites— heinous and inexcusable, whatever its motives—and that practiced by blacks—quite justified, whatever its excesses, since it's merely the expression of a righteous revenge, and it's up to the whites to be patient and understanding.

Mozart nunca escribió para conmover a las masas, sino para tocar el corazón de cada ser humano en su intimidad

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

All great art is abstract.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men—at least they can cry.

Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.

All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.