Expression Quotes
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Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.
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Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.
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What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.
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This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
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Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
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To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.
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Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.
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It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
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I hate this expression, but - "thinking outside the box," in terms of how to market and put a Broadway show out into the - allow it to reach the target audience, who can't necessarily spend $120 to come see it.
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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.
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
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Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
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I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
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Your results are an expression of your level of awareness.
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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.
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Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
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It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.
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All I care about is free speech and free expression; I want people to be able to be, do, and say anything.
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David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.
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My fans are so open-minded and trust that whatever I'm doing, in whatever moment of time, is the most accurate form of expression that I have to offer them. There are no expectations - only a journey which we all share together.
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What about freedom of expression when anti-Semitism is involved? Then it is not freedom of expression. Then it is a crime.
