Quotes about Expression

All businessmen - how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Everything you have ever seen with your eyes is the self-emptying of God into multitudinous physical and visible forms. In other words, Infinity is forever limiting itself into finite expressions, and this could even be called the "suffering" of God. The Christ learned this self-emptying, or kenosis , 183 from his eternal life in the Trinity. It is not just Jesus who suffers, but the cross is the visible symbol of what is always going on inside of God!

Have you ever noticed that the expression "the light of the world" is used to describe the Christ (John 8:12), but that Jesus also applies the same phrase to us? (Matthew 5:14, "You are the light of the world.")

Just because you do not have the right word for God does not mean you are not having the right experience.

Good art seems absolutely essential to healthy religion.