Expression Quotes

“There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.”

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."

Victor Hugo

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."

Leonard Bernstein

"The thoughts which are expressed to me by music that I love are not too indefinite to be put into words, but on the contrary, too definite."

Felix Mendelssohn

"Where words leave off, music begins."

Heinrich Heine

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening 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

"If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it."

Isadora Duncan

"They do not love that do not show their love."

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

Michel de Montaigne

"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

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

Georgia O'Keeffe

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Victor Hugo

“The body says what words cannot.”

Martha Graham

"Good actors are good because of the things they can tell without talking."

Cedric Hardwicke

“Design is one of the highest forms of human creative expression.”

Paola Antonelli

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”