Quotes about Expression

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.

A word after a word after a word is power.

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.