Quotes about Expression

If I were living near you, I should try to make you understand that it might perhaps be more practical for you to paint with me than to write, and that you might be able to express your feelings more easily that way. In any case I can do something personally about your painting, but I am not in the writing profession.

The day will come, however, when people will see they are worth more than the price of the paint and my living expenses, very meagre on the whole, which we put into them"_ Page.419

Art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from man's soul"_Page.268

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.