Quotes about Expression

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

The true craftsman has a light in his eye that Money can't buy Hal Stebbins I read this once when I was Writing a children's story; a time when inspiration had struck...At that time I knew just what he meant...It was so true. Shirley Briggs

A man may betray Jesus Christ by speaking too many words, and he may betray him through keeping his mouth shut.

Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn't know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly.