Quotes About Expression

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly' .

Ciò che più parla nelle parole è il silenzio.

To live is an art, we are all artists of our own lives.

On the inside of every window is a good intention trying to get out. Open your window today.

Good writing is emotionally honest but does not get stuck in the emotion.

When a writer takes on the task of exploring the world of the spirit, she has invited a process that will change her permanently. If she has done her work well, it will change her readers too.

If you want to be an authentic writer, learn to tell the truth, to wrestle with it, to reflect on it, and then to write about it with great care. And great humility.

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

Don't be a little fool,' he said curtly. 'It really is time you started to enjoy being a woman, and if there weren't enjoyment in it the human race would have come to an end a long time ago.' 'As if men ever cared one way or the other,' she rejoined. 'All most of you care about are sex symbols to gawk at, and maternal types to see after your comforts. I don't know into what category I fit, unless it's paramour!

Mon cas n'est pas unique : j'ai peur de mourir et je suis navrée d'être au monde. Je n'ai pas travaillé, je n'ai pas étudié. J'ai pleuré, j'ai crié. Les larmes et les cris m'ont pris beaucoup de temps.

Frogs in the marsh mud drone their old lament.

I shudder to say it.

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.

I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.

There are times in the writing of history when we must use words we personally abhor.

I call myself a wordkeeper, or a keeper of words. I enjoy words and looking at them on all sides… Words are magnificent… They form rhythms of living in meaningful prose… It is the force of my desire, my wish to make myself understood, that powers these words.

As Dickinson's Misery suggests in a number of ways, when lyric becomes an adjective, it evokes a theory of personal expression and abstraction that was highly problematic for Dickinson, but that has come to be highly valued in retrospect by modernism.