Quotes About Expression

But I trust I shall not give offence if I say that the number of my countrymen and countrywomen who lay stress on the artistic manner, whether in verse or prose, in which an opinion is expressed, compared with the number of those who value poetry or prose chiefly because it expresses the opinions they value and the sentiments they cherish, is very small.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

If this be poetry, then poetry is very easily written, and what has hitherto been supposed to be the highest, the most difficult, and the rarest, of the arts, presents no more difficulty to the person who knows how to write at all than the simplest, baldest, and most unartistic prose.

But no subject is equal to its own support, where the poet is concerned, however it may be with the preacher and the moralist. The poet himself must support it.

But if poetry is now comparatively little read, no one can deny that it is much written about.

There is no passion of the human heart, no speculation of the human mind, to which Shakespeare has not, in some passage or another, given expressive utterance.

The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression: the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit.

The most despairing songs are the loveliest of all,I know immortal ones composed only of tears.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Desgenais... was firm and serious, although a smile hovered about his lips. He was a man of heart, but as dry as a pumice-stone.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!

Les grands artistes n'ont pas de patrie. Great artists have no country.

Laurette ! Laurette ! Ah ! je me sens plus lâche qu'une femme. Mon désespoir me tue ; il faut que je pleure. ( RAZETTA )

Great artists have no country.

Mes rivaux, sous mes yeux, sauront plaire et charmer. Je resterai muet ; - moi, je ne sais qu'aimer

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

Only a few singles off an album really work, and the rest of the songs feel like such a waste.