58 quotes
“Of all that God has shown me I can speak just the smallest word”
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent”
— Victor Hugo
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.”
— Martha Graham
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”
— Maya Angelou
“Creativity takes courage to express what is within”
— Henri Matisse
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings”
— Claude Monet
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. Music is peace made audible.”
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music”
— Gustav Mahler
“I am invisible understand simply because people refuse to see me. Creativity makes the invisible visible.”
— Ralph Ellison
“One day I will find the right words and they will be simple.”
— Jack Kerouac
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I could not say any other way things I had no words for”
“Write what should not be forgotten”
— Isabel Allende
“We become full human agents capable of understanding ourselves through rich languages of expression.”
— Charles Taylor
“The secret of being boring is to say everything”
— Voltaire
“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights.”
— Liu Xiaobo
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
— William Arthur Ward
“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”
— Gladys Bertha Stern
“If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.”
— Noam Chomsky
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
— Francis Bacon
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet”
— Plato
“Art is not about creating something perfect its about expressing something true”
— Takeshi Kitano
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“The work of art is a scream of freedom”
— Christo
“Unused creativity is not benign it metastasizes into grief and sorrow”
— Brene Brown
“A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself”
— Abraham Maslow
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint”
— Edward Hopper
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
— Unknown
“Nobody cares if you can dance well just get up and dance great dancers are not great because of their technique”
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The body says what words cannot”
“Do not die with your music still in you”
— Wayne Dyer
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldnt say any other way things I had no words for.”
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Montaigne
— Georgia O Keeffe
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed the impeded stream is the one that sings”
— Wendell Berry
“The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy not when you are seeking it”
— Sadhguru
“I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions tragedy ecstasy doom and so on”
— Mark Rothko
“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights the source of humanity and the mother of truth”
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone within families.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence and kindness is loves daily expression”
— Erich Fromm
“You are joy looking for a way to express.”
— Esther Hicks
“Sometimes it is the notes you do not play that make the music”
— Itzhak Perlman
“Simplicity is the glory of expression”
— Walt Whitman
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language of language and for language”
— Gaston Bachelard
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