“Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.” PeopleMomentsFormCertainNextLaughingComedyCryExpressionTheaterCombinationMaking People LaughCombiningAstounded Author:Aleksey Igudesman
“Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.” ArtWarMotherTermImaginationProgressCryExpressionRevolutionExperimentsInventionNurseVoyagesEnnui Book:Poets of America Source: Poets of America
“There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.” HeartSelfInspirationAbleBeautifulBrainMorningStrugglePiecesWonderfulCryExpressionConceptionMidnightSelf ExpressionAll AloneMorning AfterWonderful Day Author:Gene Stratton-Porter
“Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.” ThinkingImportantFeelingsSufferingCommunitySpaceFailingCryExpressionOkayHappy LifeSad DayExpression Of Feeling Author:Marianne Williamson
“If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. In America we call it golf.” IfsSelfAmericaFormCryExpressionGolfClubsNativeCustomsPrimitiveTribesChillSpineSelf ExpressionAnthropologists Author:Dave Barry
“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.” MenHeartLongEnoughFeelingsFacesDiesWomenGriefBloodDyingCryTearsExpressionMen And WomenPressurePatienceAlcoholRisingLakesShedForbiddenOutletsLiverAmerican WomanExplodingBlood PressurePressuredAllotments Author:Pat Conroy