Expression Quotes

I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

My first vocation was dance.

We don't vogue, we are 'Vogue'.

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

Freedom of speech is freedom to offend.

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.