Quotes about Expression
Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.
— Catherine Marshall
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
— Henri Matisse
Preaching is truth through personality.
— Phillips Brooks
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
— Gordon Hinckley
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
— Nadine Gordimer
This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
— Erica Jong
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
— Anne Lamott
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
— GK Chesterton
All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.
— Henry David Thoreau
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
— Marianne Williamson