Quotes About Expression

So vast is art, so narrow human wit

Your silence there is better than your spite, For who can rail so long as they can write?

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

But flaming youth in all it's madness Keeps nothing of its heart concealed: It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness, Are babbled out and soon revealed.

Theology is] the attempt to express Truth itself, to find words adequate to the mind and experience of the Church, then it must of necessity have its source where the faith ,the mind, and the experience of the Church have their living focus and expression, where faith in both essential meanings of that word, as Truth revealed and given, and as Truth accepted and "lived," has its epiphany, and that is precisely the function of "leitourgia.

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession

To keep a journal is to learn how to play. Deeply. Even when a page is recording hard, impossible things, if judgment is suspended, there's always a surprise or shift. Connections made over time suddenly link, opening and transforming.

The secret of keeping a journal is seeing it as a draft, a stepping-stone, a process.

Thomas Mann that "a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Ten million blank journals are sold annually in stationery stores alone.

Artemisia ona kap?y? açm?yor. Arabas?na binme teklifini de geri çeviriyor. Eve kapanaca??n?, Türkler gibi eve kapal? ya?ad???n? hayk?r?yor içerden.

Ama Kardinal Hazretleri, izin verirseniz söyleyeyim. Biz, öteki ressamlar ellerimizle konu?uruz... - Olmad?, diyerek araya girdi yeniden Arezzo Piskoposu, kafayla konu?uyorsunuz... Alg? yoksa, dü?ünce de yoktur, görüntü de yok. Hatta ayn? ?ekilde, ?iir, konu?an resimdir... Resimse, Senyör Orazio, sessiz ?iirdir.

Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.

Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.

Awkwardness defines my life.

An inspired letter can be as riveting as a stare. It can move us to tears, spur us to action, provoke us, uplift us, touch us. Transform us. When written from the heart, letters are dreams on paper, wishes fulfilled, desires satisfied. letters can be powerful.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. GOETHE

As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.