Quotes About Expression

Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

The Christian faith is a singing faith, and a good way to express it and share it with others is in community singing.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

We need literature because we wouldn't fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

People should be happy to see you when you show up to a club because you're a good person. And stop caring about what the industry is "looking for". Just say what you think is funny. .

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

In good writing, words become one with things.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.