Quotes about Expression

I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

You know that I do love you, Shepard, as much as my cold little heart is capable.

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.

Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.