Quotes about Expression

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Poetry was alive and dangerous.

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.

Our own life has to be our message.

If you cannot sing like the lark and the nightingale, sing like the raven and the frogs in the pond. They sing as God has given them to sing.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking.

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives...

Whereupon I react by reporting that in the first place I do not at all see in the bestseller status of my book an achievement and accomplishment on my part but rather an expression of the misery of our time: of hundreds of thousands of people reach out firma book whose very title promises to deal with the questions of a meaning to life, it must be a question that burns under their fingernails.