Quotes about Expression

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.