Quotes about Expression

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. In art, as in politics, there is but one origin for all revolutions, a desire on the part of man for a nobler form of life, for a freer method and opportunity of expression

Looking around his hotel room not long before expiring: This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination

If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Mere words.. Was there anything so real as words?

I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists

The art of living. The only really Fine Art we have produced in modern times.

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

Was there anything so real as words?

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.