Quotes About Expression

I mean, if we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Books that get burned are written by authors whose souls are on fire with passion or knowledge.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

Wildness dances Inhibition stumbles

One should either be a work of Art, or wear a work of Art.

Be a coffee-drinking individual — espresso yourself!

Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

In fact, why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

...after having read for twelve months what these critics say I meant to say in the poem, it seems to me that I may be allowed to express my own opinion...

I don't mind adverse criticism. It doesn't matter if I'm misinterpreted because not everyone will understand what I'm trying to say.

I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Tears are the safety-valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on.

Tears are words the heart cannot express.

Finding words of no avail, I next resorted to tears.

Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.

Hard times require furious dancing.

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy, because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.

...music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance...

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and in its music. Bodies never lie.

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.

I care not a job about the technology of the art of dancing... All that concerns me is how beautifully or how expressively a dancer can dance...