Quotes About Expression

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.

Once you start to listen to your voice, you start to feel the power in that.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.