Quotes About Expression

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman.

Like most people who live on the edge, she spoke with two accents, neither authentic.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

The time had come to capture thought once again in a net of words.

Mon corps est amour. Nous sortons de l'histoire par notre propre ventre en criant. Nous sommes nos propres enfants.

Silence may be golden," I said, "but it won't win many arguments. If you have something to say, don't keep your ideas locked up; unclench your jaws and set those thoughts free. And don't be afraid to interrupt, because that may be the only way you are going to be heard.

Let us recall the boys and girls who had the nerve to write poetry and create works of art, and the adults who cared enough about life to debate philosophy, treat the ill and share their meager belongings all in a prison expressly designed to crush their spirit.

Then his face changed to a mask of hate.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Sometimes, I think, you can look at a person and know they are full of words. Maybe the words are withheld due to pain or privacy, or maybe subterfuge. Maybe there are knife-edged words waiting to draw blood.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

Without the musician, all life would be loneliness.

Sound had a freedom that no thought could equal because a sound made no absolute claim on meaning. Any word, on the other hand, could be forced to signify its opposite.

revolutionary music hurts the ears after awhile. There's no nostalgia in it, no place for people to share their sorrows. Of course," Big Mother continued hurriedly,

But Sparrow remembered every word as if the brief letter was a poem or Bach partita. He could stand up and deliver it now, word for word, note for note.

There was Glenn Gould hunched over the piano, wearing a dark suit, hearing patterns far beyond the range of what most of us are given to perceive,

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.

don't forget the value of who you are no matter what kind of hat you are wearing.