Quotes about Expression
I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
— Oscar Wilde
I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.
— Moby
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
— Thomas Jefferson
It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.
— Max Lucado
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
— Milan Kundera
The great artist is the simplifier.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Write while the heat is in you.
— Henry David Thoreau
And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.
— Lee Ann Womack
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
— Virginia Woolf
Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
— Marina Abramovic
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
— Ernest Hemingway