Quotes about Expression
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
— George Eliot
Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
— Ayn Rand
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
— Jonathan Edwards
At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.
— Erica Jong
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
— Pablo Picasso
Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
— Ernest Hemingway
Yelling is a form of publishing.
— Margaret Atwood
You can make them so small that they almost disappear, but I think headlights are also part of the face of a car.
— Henrik Fisker
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
— Anne Lamott
Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.
— Peter Kreeft
All metaphors limp.
— Peter Kreeft
All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.
— Peter Kreeft