Quotes about Expression

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

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

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