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Quotes About Expression

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.
~ Robert Creeley
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
~ George Henry Lewes
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.
~ Robert Plant
Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.
~ Abbi Jacobson
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
~ Alison Bechdel
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.
~ Anna Kamienska
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.
~ Antonio Porchia
Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
~ Aristotle
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
~ Auguste Rodin
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
~ Ben Jonson
The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.
~ Ben Shahn
For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.
~ Bo Burnham
The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
~ Carl Jung
You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.
~ Carolina Herrera
I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.
~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.
~ Maurice Blondel
Art is man's refuge from adversity.
~ Menander
I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.
~ Michelle Rodriguez
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
~ Miguel de Cervantes