Quotes About Expression

You always have those people who are very opinionated - and I thank them soooo much for their opinions.

I've always had a lot of energy and had a lot of opinions all my life - people misunderstood that about me being naughty, gobby, or different.

I give opinions, not advice.

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I've got a lot of opinions.

With any huge change, you need to expect and accept that people will have their own opinions and feel the need to express them.

If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

We're very clear on 'black-ish' about how many opinions are voiced by Dre Johnson.

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

I have strong opinions, and I am not afraid to share them.

As a player, you can't express ideas and opinions as easily as when you're doing a ballgame.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.....

I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.

To become a work of art is the object of living.

love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. 

I have been right, Basil, haven't I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare's plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realized, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting point for an ideal that is other than itself. This is why music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret.

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...