Quotes About Expression

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

Nature is fun to study, but style is everything.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Now I can show you my true nature.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.