Quotes about Expression
Creativity takes courage
— Henri Matisse
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
— Henry David Thoreau
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
— Henry David Thoreau
Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the germs of disease, and bring new elements of health.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes when you walk—and remember who you are!
— Lewis Carroll
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
— Lewis Carroll
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
— Albert Einstein
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
— John Lennon
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
— CS Lewis