Quotes About Expression

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.