Quotes about Expression

Doctrine is less theoretical than it is theatrical, a matter of doing—speaking and showing—what we have heard and understood.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Too many things to say. Too many things unsaid.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Theology isn't really theology for us until we live it.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.