Quotes about Expression

Service to God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God. Service is an expression of my nature, and God's call is an expression of His nature. Therefore, when I receive His nature and hear His call, His divine voice resounds throughout His nature and mine and the two become one in service. The Son of God reveals Himself in me, and out of devotion to Him service becomes my everyday way of life.

There must be a mechanical [physical] outlet for spiritual inspiration. You must DO [in the physical] what you see [in the spiritual], or become BLIND in that particular.

Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

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.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Every kiss has its own meaning. As the early-twentieth-century French chanteuse Mistinguett said: "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Word problems are often interpretation problems. We do not say the right thing because we do not believe the right thing.