Quotes About Expression

I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

I am a thespian trapped in a man's body.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

They love least that let men know their loves.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman

Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904