Quotes about Expression
God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
- Pablo Picasso
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
- Ashley Montagu
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
- Pablo Picasso
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In good writing, words become one with things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
- Alain de Botton
The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?
- Margaret Atwood
I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.
- Christina Ricci
I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.
- Julian Casablancas
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
- Ernest Hemingway
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.
- Gloria Steinem