58 quotes
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. Music is peace made audible.”
— Victor Hugo
“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
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
— Maya Angelou
“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
“Art is not about creating something perfect its about expressing something true”
— Takeshi Kitano
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed the impeded stream is the one that sings”
— Wendell Berry
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint”
— Edward Hopper
“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”
— Gladys Bertha Stern
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”
“Do not die with your music still in you”
— Wayne Dyer
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
— William Arthur Ward
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Nobody cares if you can dance well just get up and dance great dancers are not great because of their technique”
“Sometimes it is the notes you do not play that make the music”
— Itzhak Perlman
“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
“Of all that God has shown me I can speak just the smallest word”
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
“The secret of being boring is to say everything”
— Voltaire
“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
“Unused creativity is not benign it metastasizes into grief and sorrow”
— Brene Brown
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I could not say any other way things I had no words for”
“The work of art is a scream of freedom”
— Christo
“Creativity takes courage to express what is within”
— Henri Matisse
“You are joy looking for a way to express.”
— Esther Hicks
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings”
— Claude Monet
“If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.”
— Noam Chomsky
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
— Unknown
“Write what should not be forgotten”
— Isabel Allende
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights.”
— Liu Xiaobo
“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights the source of humanity and the mother of truth”
— Georgia O Keeffe
“We become full human agents capable of understanding ourselves through rich languages of expression.”
— Charles Taylor
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet”
— Plato
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
— Francis Bacon
“Simplicity is the glory of expression”
— Walt Whitman
“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
— Montaigne
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence and kindness is loves daily expression”
— Erich Fromm
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent”
“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language of language and for language”
— Gaston Bachelard
“One day I will find the right words and they will be simple.”
— Jack Kerouac
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone within families.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The body says what words cannot”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldnt say any other way things I had no words for.”
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