Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

Style without content is bad style.

Words make love with one another.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, so they use them with care, with thought, with delight.

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

Content dictates form and style.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.