Quotes about Expression
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
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