Quotes About Expression

Apart from the requirement that we be authentic before God, there is no prescribed way to pray. Each of us presents a unique mix of personality, outlook, training, gifts, and weaknesses, as well as a unique history with church and with God. As Roberta Bondi says, "If you are praying, you are already 'doing it right.

The arts are the best Time Machine we have. C. S. Lewis

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

The artist became a subcreator.

Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.

I feel as if I can think only when I see the words flowing from the nib of my quill, that my thoughts make sense only when they are black ink on cream paper. I love the sensation of a thought in my head and the vision of the word on the page.

Why not?' She asks the most challenging questions that a woman can ask. 'Why should I not read? Why should I not think? Why should I not speak?

He has such kind eyes." "Certainly he has eyes, but they do not have the power of emotion, only of sight.

Uma palavra feita sobre coação não tem valor- vou ser livre.

and publishing. To take a thought and work on it, to render it into the clearest form possible, and then to send it out into the world – this is work so precious and so joyful that I am not surprised that men have kept it to themselves.

If I burned them, I became as one of those who think that ideas are dangerous and should be destroyed.

iI you are a reader you are already half-way to being a writer -for you have a love of words and a pleasure from seeing them on a page.

Nu vreau s? m? gândesc la faptul de a fi o femeie care nu poate tr?i în noua lume pe care o construiesc b?rbaÈ›ii. Nu vreau s? m? gândesc cum s-a ridicat Melusina din fântâna ei artezian? È™i s-a închis într-un castel, cât timp sunt refugiat? în sanctuar È™i noi, toate fiicele Melusinei suntem captive într-un loc, unde nu putem fi pe de-a întregul noi însele".

A)rt is like bread, an essential ingredient for nourishing the soul.

and if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place

Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart.

Karen made a face. Oh, c'mon. I don't think so, I said. Old Play-by-the-Rules McKinley, said Brian, laughing at me. I could hardly stand him. You've got that right, I said, and turned away.

stares down at her spinach. "It looks like poop," she says.

You don't make art, you find it

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today that it ever was.

What is a face really? It's own photo? It's makeup? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realise the truth

Los buenos artistas copian, los grandes roban.

Todos los niños nacen artistas. El problema es cómo seguir siendo artista cuando creces.