Quotes about Expression
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.
— John Donne
Let the world feel the weight of who you are and let them deal with it.
— John Eldredge
Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.
— John Eldredge
Life is a hypocrite if I can't live The way it moves me!
— John Eldredge
The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol — The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.
— John Eldredge
The personality of the artist leaks through their work. God included. He reveals himself through nature, as the Scriptures testify.
— John Eldredge
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
— John Keats
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
— John Keats
Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.
— John Keats
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
— John Lennon