Quotes About Expression

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

Nature constantly imitates art.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.

I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.

Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.