Quotes about Expression

I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

Apart from the occasional bit of dad dancing, I really can't dance.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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.