Quotes About Expression

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

What a man thinks is no concern of the government.

"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
(from The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1)

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.