Quotes about Expression

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.

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.

People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.

But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.

I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream--I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal--to something finer, richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.