Quotes About Expression

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

The theater was my mother and my father.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.