#Expression

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

"Music is an outburst of the soul."

"Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling"

"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."

"Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of."

"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

"If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way."

"Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self."

"Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well."

"Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted."

"Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens"

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."

"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live."

"Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope."

"You are the expression of consciousness; your thoughts are the expression of you."

"It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it."

"Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression."

"The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls."