Quotes About Expression

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. 

No artist has ethical sympathies.

Conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.

real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.

She doesn't care much for eloquence in others.  She thinks it a little loud. [

La verdad es una cosa muy dolorosa de oír y de manifestar

The is nothing that art cannot express

a beleza, a verdadeira beleza, acaba onde a expressão intelectual começa. O intelecto é já uma forma de exagero e destrói a harmonia de qualquer rosto.

Ningún artista es morboso. El artista está capacitado para expresarlo todo.

Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognisance. And the soul itself, the soul of each one of us, is to each one of us a mystery. It hides in the dark and broods, and consciousness cannot tell us of its workings. Consciousness, indeed, is quite inadequate to explain the contents of personality. It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium

I'm too fond of reading books to care to write them.

but I, once a lord of language, have no words in which to express my anguish and my shame...

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

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

Creo que el arte oculta al artista más que lo descubre

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

My one quarrel is with words.

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

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

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