Quotes about Expression

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke: the faith and morals hold which Milton held.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another.

Poetry is the image of man and nature

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.

Having gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not deliver it.

Never a day without a line.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.