The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it..

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose..

The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence..

God is always at work around you..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

I remember it as if it were today... seeing him [Che] framed in the viewfinder, with that expression. I am still startled by the impact... it shakes ….

Spin-offs were never really my thing..

Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to man, his ….

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with ex….

No one can be cured of being who they are..

The great appear great to us..

Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude towar….

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something..

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the mea….

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible..

It is by doing anything that we become anyone.

Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaus….

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression..

I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it..

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack..