Quotes about Expression

I'd have to listen to somebody - artist or shoe clerk. And the artist is more entertaining because he knows less about what he is trying to do.

Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Now that his physical voice was silent, the inner voice of reason, and other voices too, made themselves heard.

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant satisfaction to the thought. This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture.