Quotes about Expression
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
Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!
— John Lennon
Look at me Who am I supposed to be? Look at me What am I supposed to be? Look at me Oh my love
— John Lennon
You can't keep quiet about anything that's going on in the world, unless you're a monk. Sorry, monks! I didn't mean it!
— John Lennon
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
— Robert Frost
We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.
— St. Basil
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
— Marina Abramovic
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
— CS Lewis