Quotes About Expression

I'm also reminded of how those words no longer belong only to me; how, when we identify with what another has said or written, we use those words as an articulation of our own inner voices, not only as a celebration of theirs.

When we see a painting that we love, we're not standing there thinking about the artist who made it — we're thinking about how that painting makes us feel, what that reflects to us about our lives and the world. And so I love when love exceeds … its creator, which is the whole goal of art…; when it becomes not about the person who created it, but about the people who consume it…

clothing that placed them somewhere along the hippy/anarchist/punk rock/funked-out artist continuum.

She cried and her tears fell in the wrong direction. Not down over the light of her cheeks to the corners of her mouth, but away from the edges of her eyes to her ears and into the nest of her hair on the bed. She

That you're so bound up about writing tells me that writing is what you're here to do. And when people are here to do that, they almost always tell us something we need to hear. I want to know what you have inside you. I want to see the contours of your second beating heart. So write, Elissa Bassist. Not like a girl. Not like a boy. Write like a motherfucker. Yours,

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives.

When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.

Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me for it.

She hadn't held back a thing, not a single lick of her love.

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty.

The words are purposes. The words are maps. ADRIENNE RICH, "Diving into the Wreck" Will you take me as I am? Will you? JONI MITCHELL, "California

When I have something to say that's particularly hard to say, I often write it down first.

Practice saying the word "love" to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

The mission of literature is to tell us who we are."—Cheryl Strayed @CherylStrayed

You will regret the small thing you didn't say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.

I'm tired of being what you want me to be Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface I don't know what you're expecting of me Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes

Your voice was joy and pain, anger and forgiveness, love and heartache all wrapped up into one. I suppose that's what we all are. You helped me understand that.

We're living inside of our minds Afraid someone just might Hear what we're thinking Quiet Careful of what you might say Cause they'll put you away

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

Judas. It's none of your business how other people spend their money. Mary bought this expensive nard as an expression of her love. That love will be remembered for thousands of years.

To achieve the kind of hard beat 'Gasm needed to back up Hartz's guitar madman act, Reichmann could have done as well pounding on a trash-can lid.

We were talking a lot, but we weren't communicating at all.

What you say matters, not the language