Expression Quotes

• I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.

  

  Thomas Eakins
  • Lord
  • Faces
  • Musician

• Singing is my form of expression; it's what I've always done and I hope that in some capacity I'll always have that outlet. In the next few weeks I'm getting together with many varied kinds of songwriters. I'd really like to explore a few things and see what I can come out with.

  

  Wendy Matthews
  • Done
  • Together
  • Kind

• I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Knowledge
  • Littles
  • Expression

• I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

  

  Black Francis Pixies
  • Painting
  • I Think
  • Expression

• Faith is a practical expression of the confidence we have in God and His Word, while trust is a practical expression of our commitment to God and His Word.

  

  Creflo A. Dollar
  • God
  • Faith
  • Trust

• Architecture is an expression of values.

  

  Norman Foster
  • Values
  • Architecture
  • Expression

• I have accustomed my features always to assume an expression quite contrary to my feelings; thus I am able to feign outwardly, yet within know nothing of dissumulation. This habit is easy if compared to the practice of hoping for nothing, which I have bent my efforts toward acquiring for fifteen successive years, and have at last succeeded.

  

  Gerolamo Cardano
  • Feelings
  • Expression
  • Succeeded

• I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Move
  • Love Song
  • Writing A Book

• All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

  

  Nick Hornby
  • Books
  • Read
  • Expression

• You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who excuse themselves with the expression, "That is politics; nor can you be responsible for deception in others. But you are responsible for yourself! There are no collective panaceas - only individual ones."

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Politics
  • Honor
  • Economy

• Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

  

  Judy Holliday
  • Acting
  • Theatre
  • Form

• We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Church
  • Needs
  • Heard

• Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Sex
  • Matter
  • Artistic

• Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. And the universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting. The embryo becomes a baby; the baby is born; its lungs continue to breathe - not only were they created but then they continue to breathe. The heart is not only created but it continues to breathe. If there is injury and disease that becomes present within the body, the body is also equipped with an immune system to correct that.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Universe

• The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Girl
  • Baby
  • Doors

• What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Literature
  • Mood
  • Vehicle

• I've learned that love is not possessive and I've learned that love won't wait. Now I've learned that love needs expression, but I learned too late.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Love
  • Learned
  • Late

• Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

  

  Wes Nisker
  • Spiritual
  • Poetry
  • Special

• For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Fashion
  • Expression
  • Medium

• With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Purpose

• In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.

  

  Raul Castro
  • Party
  • Differences
  • Class

• The face of the sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.

  

  Armin Joseph Deutsch
  • Heart
  • Sun
  • Face

• Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

  

  Nathanael West
  • Feeling
  • Expression
  • Intensity

• When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an artist, art is the truest expression of yourself. Even if you're painting a life you don't have.

  

  Deborah Solomon
  • Work
  • Painting
  • Revelation

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