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1. “One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.”

Ivan Turgenev

Self, Enthusiasm, Expression, Fire, Truth

2. “A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.”

Ivan Turgenev

Poetry, Psychology, Art, Depth, Expression

3. “Words indeed have been my ruin; they have consumed me, and to the end I cannot be free of them.”

Ivan Turgenev

Language, Obsession, Burden, Artistry, Expression

4. “I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.”

Ivan Turgenev

Expression, Freedom, Thought, Honesty, Mind

5. “My dear Natalya Petrovna, there’s funny and funny.”

Ivan Turgenev

Humor, Irony, Perspective, Wit, Expression

6. “Teaching is a performance art.”

Camille Paglia

Teaching, Art, Performance, Education, Expression

7. “Rule of art: Can’t kills creativity!”

Camille Paglia

Art, Creativity, Rules, Expression, Freedom

8. “Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.”

Camille Paglia

Art, Philosophy, Creativity, Society, Expression

9. “The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.”

Camille Paglia

Language, Art, Imagination, Philosophy, Expression

10. “The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.”

Camille Paglia

Art, Philosophy, Self, Expression, Creativity

11. “Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.”

Guy Kawasaki

Writing, Therapy, Expression, Reflection, Healing

12. “I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. – Ludwig van Beethoven.”

Guy Kawasaki

Writing, Creativity, Passion, Expression, Music

13. “The beggar wears all colors fearing none.”

Charles Lamb

Freedom, Poverty, Identity, Expression, Boldness

14. “The true poet dreams being awake.”

Charles Lamb

Poetry, Imagination, Vision, Creativity, Expression

15. “This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.”

Charles Lamb

Writing, Art, Expression, Insight, Wisdom

16. “Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.”

Charles Lamb

Irony, Humor, Restraint, Expression, Perception

17. “I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off’ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.”

Charles Lamb

Love, Devotion, Offering, Emotion, Expression

18. “Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.”

Charles Lamb

Thought, Perspective, Wisdom, Truth, Expression

19. “A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”

Charles Lamb

Humor, Wit, Language, Expression, Playfulness

20. “If thou would’st have me sing and play As once I play’d and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.”

Charles Lamb

Music, Renewal, Change, Nostalgia, Expression

21. “Artists are always young.”

Margaret Fuller

Artists, Youth, Creativity, Expression, Timeless

22. “Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.”

Margaret Fuller

Expression, Growth, Balance, Life, Moderation

23. “Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.”

Margaret Fuller

Writing, Essays, Criticism, Expression, Thought

24. “A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. – Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.”

Margaret Fuller

Art, Thought, Beauty, Literature, Expression

25. “We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.”

Margaret Fuller

Expression, Thought, Creativity, Communication, Art

26. “There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”

Margaret Fuller

Gender, Identity, Balance, Expression, Humanity

27. “Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”

Margaret Fuller

Art, Expression, Symbolism, Creativity, Perception

28. “The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.”

Margaret Fuller

Music, Soul, Expression, Art, Passion

29. “All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.”

Margaret Fuller

Expression, Perception, Simplicity, Understanding, Appreciation

30. “I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg.”

Steven Wright

Expression, Emotion, Body, Irony, Humor

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