Quotes about Expression

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.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

It is 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 some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

Writing is very subconscious and the last thing I want to do is think about it.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.