Quotes about Expression

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

Because paper has more patience than people.

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

Hey, mister, I don't think so. You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry.

If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it.

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.

It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic. So talk like you really talk. Reveal things that others are unwilling to discuss. Be upfront about your shortcomings. Show the latest version of what you're working on, even if you're not done yet. It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.

Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.