Margaret Fuller Quotes

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

What I am after, above all, is expression.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

Artists need to express.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Music is the way I understand how to communicate now, the way that I've learned how to communicate... but it will eventually have to go beyond that. You see, I've realised that music is not what keeps people involved - it's the attitude behind the music.

Music is the soul of language.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Tone has the living soul.