Quotes about Expression

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.

the listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it. Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.

The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.

He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.

Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat...

It's a comfortable thing, music is.

I'd have to listen to somebody - artist or shoe clerk. And the artist is more entertaining because he knows less about what he is trying to do.

Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Now that his physical voice was silent, the inner voice of reason, and other voices too, made themselves heard.

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant satisfaction to the thought. This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.