Quotes about Expression
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
- John Keats
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
- John Lennon
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don't compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.
- James Franco
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
- Seth Godin
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
- Ted Dekker
Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
- Margaret Atwood
People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.
- Joe Biden
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
- Virginia Woolf
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
- Walt Whitman
You have first to experience what you want to express.
- Vincent Van Gogh