top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Expression quotes
"What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?"
"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."
"Heaven resonates when one sings wholeheartedly."
"You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!"
"There are things known-things experienced, felt, and understood-that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice."
"If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act-truth is always subversive."
"In a man's letters his soul lies naked."
"Life is a sacred story."
"Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Explore more quotes by Michel de Montaigne
"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."
"Marriage happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."
"Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment."
bottom of page