Quotes about Expression
Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.
— Publilius Syrus
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
— Robert Frost
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
— Henry David Thoreau
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