Quotes about Expression

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Be ugly, be God

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

There are two aspects of man's existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art.

She did not smile, but her face had the lovely serenity that can become a smile without transition.

Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.