Expression of Emotion Quotes

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked in me, well that’s why I do what I do.”

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

This isn't about the money. This is just for me. I love music.

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.

I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.

People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression.

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

Energy and art go where they will.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

Art is a primal need - even under siege, especially under siege.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.