922 Quotes About Expression

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.