Quotes about Expression
I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.
— Olga Tokarczuk
But I know that writing on bags is something people do only out of anxiety and uncertainty. Neither defeat nor the greatest success is conducive to writing.
— Olga Tokarczuk
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.
— Os Guinness
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
— Oscar Wilde
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
— Oscar Wilde
The proper school to learn art is not life but art
— Oscar Wilde
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
— Oscar Wilde
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
— Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
— Oscar Wilde
The true craftsman has a light in his eye that Money can't buy Hal Stebbins I read this once when I was Writing a children's story; a time when inspiration had struck...At that time I knew just what he meant...It was so true. Shirley Briggs
— Oscar Wilde