Quotes about Expression

Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

If you sing to one person as if you're singing to a million, you will soon have an audience of a million.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

My speech impediment wasn't a stutter but it was dropping several letters that I just could not say for several years, most specifically the 'r' sound.

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Beauty without expression tires.