Quotes About Expression

Art teaches art.

Creativity knows no bounds; there is no jail that would hold it. It flows beyond grammar and edge of canvas and specifics of brush or movement or tongue, out there and within you, always ready for the soul to take flight.

Every day, the sun paints the world in light— you can do the same."

Put your pen to your paper Press down on the ink Then take a short moment To ponder and think And listen real close to your heart's gentle call Then write every word that you hear, One and all.

The creative plane is pure magic, pure adventure, pure freedom.

There are no rules to creativity.

To write to paint to make art of any kind is a great and true adventure."

What is made from the heart is a masterpiece.

Whatever excites you whatever calls you whatever fills you with a desire to make that is the place to begin; art will meet you there.

Your every word, your every thought, your every intention is a gift to the world.

To be an artist was to interpret experiences for others. The more a person turned in to the charismatic forces in life or in a piece of art the more that person lived in the ecstasy of energy we call life

And this letter I didn't send how surprising to find it now. All this love I must have felt.

if you sing a sad song loud enough, the boys on those torpedo boats can hear you under the sea.

I, who am doubt now, with a song .

Gjerji raises his hand. In English he says, "I like to tell in the words of a great American philosopher what freedom is." "Say it in your language to your peers," I urge. Gyerji makes his statement. The class grows silent and thoughtful; there is much nodding. Twain perhaps? Emerson? Diana sidles up and whispers in my ear. "He says to them that freedom is a word when nothing is anymore able to be losed." Janis Joplin, de-syntaxed.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more. Robert Herrick, 1648

Viola had a smile that could make the heavens open. She also had a frown of such scorn, it could send a man straight to hell.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

There it was again, another strange usage. 'We had words.' Everyone has words...What a useless euphemism. The phrases that people used to make things prettier never worked.

It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn't show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think it was similar for carpenters and writers, and he knew it was the same for chefs.

Tess's Uncle Donald winced when he entered the Kibbitz Room at Attman's Delicatessen. The pained expression

No one uses words correctly and if you call them on it, they claim that words are fungible, that it's oppressive and prissy not to let words mean whatever the speaker wishes them to mean.

literally. Unlike most people, even allegedly educated ones, he used