Quotes About Expression

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

I like men-inspired outfits.

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.