Quotes About Expression

men and women who'd constantly filed through our common room, wearing hoodies and piercings—uniform in their aversion to uniformity—

The First Amendment says nothing about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone else's speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free speech. Free people don't run to court, or to the principal, when they encounter a message they don't like. They answer it with one of their own.

Your day goes the way the corners of your mouth turn.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard

Your day goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. — UNKNOWN

In words are seen the state of mind, character and disposition of the speaker. — Plutarch

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

hot pink looks cute on only janet which is MEEEEEEE!!!

don't expect me to be all dear diary this and dear diary that

step step step no no no plop plop plop in i go

Zoo wee mama

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

That's not painting, that's Paint-By-Numbers. That's therapy for the artistically challenged. That's what they prescribe for cretins in dayrooms.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

All are free to believe or not believe all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.

Another story tells of Grogan, passing through New York, performed a public burning of dollar bills, and the dollar dropped six points on Wall Street.

Great art is never finished, only abandoned. — Leonardo da Vinci

Right now you should stop whatever you're doing and say this out loud: Stories get their name from how they're supposed to be used, not from what you're trying to write down.

Great art is never finished, only abandoned.

She tucked her chin to her chest and looked at me like I was a Neanderthal. Except I remembered that scientists had recently discovered that Neanderthals were actually probably capable of complex thought and communication so that analogy wouldn't work anymore.

I cursed. (S-word, f-word, s-word, d-word, s-word times three, f-word, and a z-word I made up on the spot.) I kicked a brick wall. I said the z-word again in response to the pain that came from kicking a brick wall.

Sometimes to deal with your problems you have to let off a little steam.

Giving your mother a good night kiss is totally punk rock, and don't you forget it!)