Quotes about Expression

Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

Art builds up self-knowledge, and is an excellent way of communicating the resulting fruit to other people.

Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved.

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

The purpose of God for the Christian is the consistent expression of divine love.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

America... a place of free expression of everything with everyone, which is made possible through the civil courage characteristic of the American and through the lack of all inhibiting officiousness in personal conversation.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

I flapped open the lid of my cardboard guitar case and whipped out my old Martin. Mr. Killen seemed a little taken aback. I think he wasn't sure whether I was going to play the guitar or brain him with it. He breathed a sigh of relief when I went into a song. Bill hustled his guitar out as fast as he could and joined in. I sang loud and strong with the security that comes with knowing that one way or another, it'll be over soon.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.