Quotes About Expression

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

What we play is life.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

The true object of all human life is play.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Without music, life would be a mistake.... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.

Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Art is the proper task of life.

Without music, life would be a mistake.