Quotes about Expression

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

My wardrobe reflects my long-standing belief that great style lives in the details.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it. I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world. I refuse to let anything get in my way.