Joseph Joubert Quotes

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.

...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.

When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.

Your partner cannot read your mind, so talk to your partner about how you're feeling and what you need.

I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.

What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.

Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs and desperations are most dramatically split open. At the Plastic Inevitable it is All Here and Now and the Future.

I don't need sound to talk to me.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!