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Quotes About Expression

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.
~ Jean Craighead George
When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.
~ Jonah Lehrer
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
~ Howard Nemerov
The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.
~ Li-Young Lee
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
~ Plato
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
~ Aristotle
A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?
~ Saul Bellow
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
It's not just the adage 'write what you know,' it's about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you've collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don't know.
~ Sarah Kay
Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.
~ Roger Ebert
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
~ Cees Nooteboom
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.
~ Keith Jarrett
Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.
~ Lauren Mayberry
Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
~ Robert Henri
Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.
~ Julian Assange
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
~ Henri Matisse
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
~ John Dewey
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
~ August Bournonville
We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
~ Marianne Williamson