Jim Woodring Quotes

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

Don't talk - keep it in your heart.

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.

In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.

The experiences and feelings I have are starting to outweigh the words available to explain them.

People think I'm laid back, but there's a lot going on in my head.

The things people are ashamed of come through in whatever their outerwear is. I suppose I am always looking for that, even if it's somebody who, on the outside, seems to be perfect.

I am expressive but secretive about my emotions.

There are things that I don't like to talk about directly. There are relationships that I am in and have been in that I've written about in a slightly more abstract way, talking about how it affected me but not so much dealing with the other people involved.

My compositions are, I would say, like pages ripped from a diary that I don't really want to share, but that I almost feel the need to share. It's a way for me to get things out that I can't get out in life, you know, in real regular conversation with people.