“The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.”
Oscar Wilde
“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.”
Anne Roiphe
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
Ray Bradbury
“Beauty without expression is boring.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Mere enthusiasm is the all in all. . . .Passion and expression are beauty itself.”
William Blake
“O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.”
Walt Whitman
