Quotes about Expression
The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
— Anais Nin
I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
— Ann Voskamp
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
— Elbert Hubbard
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
— Elias Canetti
I have no sounds that could serve to soothe me, no violoncello like him, no lament that anyone would recognize as a lament because it sounds subdued, in an inexpressibly tender language. I have only these lines on the yellowish paper and words that are never new, for they keep saying the same thing through an entire life.
— Elias Canetti
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.
— Elie Wiesel
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
— Elie Wiesel
Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as "an apothecary for the soul.
— Arianna Huffington
The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear.… If I "try" to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability. —STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH
— Arianna Huffington
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
— Aristotle