Quotes about Expression
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
— William James
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
— Aristotle
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
— Dorothy Day
For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is good, but happiness is better.
— Marty Rubin
The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
— Alice Walker
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
— Toni Morrison
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
— Marilyn Monroe
The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
— Ernest Hemingway
The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.
— RC Sproul
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
— William Golding