Quotes About Expression

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Music is the greatest communication in the world.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them 'common' to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means 'common.')

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.