Quotes about Expression

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it's easy to fool yourself into believing you understand things. Writing is terrible for vanity and self-delusion.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

The body is a sacred garment.