Quotes About Expression

Dites-en du bien, dites-en du mal, mais dites-en quelque chose.

No es posible mostrar a una mujer un hombre apuesto que llora sin que se diga 'Desde luego, yo le habría amado mejor

It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these new countries, where both English and French are intertwined again, it is as if English were bathing itself in the fountain of its own youth, and as if French were remembering the buried treasures it had thought forgotten.

Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?

I heard there was a riot.' 'There was a demonstration, which I think is different. It was peaceful until it was interrupted.' Mason seemed to be thinking hard about it. 'What sort of demonstration?' 'Hmm... A new kind. It looked poetical at first but then became rather poletical.

N'ayons pas peur des mots. Ils n'ont pas peur de nous.

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The wolves howl bluer than Billie Holliday, but they don't spoil my song.

This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Artists are men who want to become inhuman.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

Oh, how I wish I could make those who see my work feel the splendors and terrors of the night! One ought to be able to make people hear the songs, the silences, and murmurings of the air. They should feel the infinite.

La clarté est la souveraine politesse de qui manie une plume . (Clarity is the sovereign politeness of the one who wields a pen.)

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you.

For all her love of words, at times they're entirely insufficient.

makes a face that's like the opposite of rolling his eyes, where his features get really still, and he looks away from Lorenzo with his eyelids half-closed, and he just waits for the words to go away.

Por mais que ame as palavras, por vezes elas são completamente insuficientes.

The man's words have landed on her face and she does – she looks like an Aztec warrior.

I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Surrealism, although the courses of literature paradoxically make room for it today, is not a discipline that can be taught.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.