Quotes About Expression

Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves.

My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.

Behind unfinished art cries an unfinished artist.

Art is art, even when unsuccessful.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Art is never didactic, does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Soul colors the artist so that the artist can color the canvas.

It is curious how a man can stamp his personality upon earthly things.

An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's.

...his babbling, berry lips...

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Book ink is blood-drops of author-heart.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigour it will give your style.

Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

...you've heard how short, concise, and compendious he is in his Answers? Nothing is to be got out of him but Monosyllables? by Jingo, I believe he would make three Bites of a Cherry.

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.

In general, we have as natural a right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk, and hazard. I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Damn the expurgated books! I say damn 'em! The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.

Did you ever hear anyone say, "That book had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?"

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Censorship offends me.

The worst part of censorship is XXX XXXXXX XX XXXXXXX.