Negative Expression Quotes

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval.

Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.