Quotes About Expression

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

Man created words to free himself

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Love is the fart Of every heart; It pains a man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend when 'tis let loose.25

There is a special loneliness in unshared music, even if it was 'The White Cliffs of Dover'.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

He [Platon Karataev] did not understand, and could not grasp the significance of words taken apart from the sentence. Every word and every action of his was the expression of a force uncomprehended by him, which was his life.

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen.

Music is the shorthand of emotion

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

The idea of "art for art's sake" is a recent Western cultural phenomenon that in some ways both distracts and diminishes the reality of human creative expressions. If we define art broadly, then it permeates virtually every aspect of our lives. All of us search for and attempt to create that which is aesthetically pleasing; thus, we are all "artists.

Curt, my husband, is a writer, and he'll never write again. That's our funeral, as they say down south. Now in your case, my pet, you're married to a phenomenon of our own special epoch, a man who couldn't in a thousand years be a writer in the only meaning of the term, but who can and probably will write a book.

the truth we have to tell and the things we have to do are too unique to fit within a usual job setting.