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Quotes About Expression

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
~ Carl Jung
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
~ Martina Navratilova
Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.
~ Martha Graham
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
~ Diogenes
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
~ William Butler Yeats
If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.
~ Del Close
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
~ Mason Cooley
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
~ Martha Graham
Competitions are for horses, not artists.
~ Bela Bartok
Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.
~ Wally Wood
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
~ John Cassavetes
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
~ Paul Celan
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.
~ W. H. Auden
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
~ Anatole France
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
~ Albert Einstein
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
~ Edouard Manet
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
~ Lewis Hine
Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.
~ Mos Def
Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
~ Alvin Ailey
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
~ Yasmin Mogahed