Quotes about Expression
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
— Henry David Thoreau
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
— Henry David Thoreau
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
— Henry David Thoreau
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.
— Henry David Thoreau
An artist is first an amateur.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things
— Henry David Thoreau
I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.
— Henry David Thoreau
A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
— Henry David Thoreau
In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority.
— Herman Melville
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
— Vincent Van Gogh