Speech/production

Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or production:

“There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet’s bombast!”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)