Quotes About Expression

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Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? I hear the noise of my own voice: The painter's vision is not a lens, it trembles to caress the light. But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot, lurid, rapid, garish, grouped, heightened from life, yet paralyzed by fact. from "Epilogue

great poetry marches along the path that leads to abundance of life, and not to a feeble and degenerate egotism. The

Art is the imperishable and dynamic expression of these aims. It is, and always has been, the visible evidence of the activity of free minds.…

Nations. These monuments are not merely pretty things, not merely valued signs of man's creative power. They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man's struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God.

don't believe I've ever been more certain than I am now that the development and understanding of man's workmanship is the fundamental need of man's spirit; or that we can never look for a healthy social body until that need, among others, is fed.

They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man's struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God. With

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.

The essential key for writing is to write regularly — like it or not — great ideas come often by writing; releasing the subconscious — waiting for inspiration and ideas will not work, but it does help to have a notebook with you all the time for sudden brainstorms or inspiration.

pavement of the street as the boy draped the strip of gleaming tinfoil around his neck and

What do you teach?" "Art history." From Taylor's expression, this made little sense.

If we do not put effort into creating our original thoughts, then ready-made pseudo-thoughts, trite words and phrases, come automatically to mind and carry us along with them, resulting in "thinking almost entirely without thoughts." (Steiner).

that feeling you might call "writer's block" is actually fear. The

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Write only what you believe.

Creativity is choice-making.

You must shape your story in a way that both expresses your vision and satisfies the audience's desires.

First we must dig deeply into life to uncover new insights, new refinements of value and meaning, then create a story vehicle that expresses our interpretation to an increasingly agnostic world.