Expression Quotes
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It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.
Antonin Dvorak -
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Was I speared? I think so. Slam-dunked is probably the expression which sums it up best.
Brian O'Driscoll -
I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
Anne Carson -
All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.
William Ellery Channing -
An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.
Ximénès Doudan -
Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.
Nazanin Boniadi -
My Body, My Soul and I.
Ian Gardner
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Whenever someone comes up to me saying, 'I saw you in 'Carlos' and then I saw the rest of your movies,' for me, it's an expression that we might be doing something well. So my life hasn't changed that much. I just try not to go to very crowded places if I'm not in the mood.
Edgar Ramirez -
The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.
Alexander Lowen -
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
James Brown -
Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?
Laini Taylor -
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
Liu Xiaobo
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Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.
Aron Nimzowitsch -
Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.
Barnett Newman -
Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.
Myrna Loy -
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
The truth always stays the same.
Neil Diamond
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I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.
Lady Gregory -
The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.
R. Carlos Nakai -
There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.
Bede Griffiths -
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.
Thurston Moore Sonic Youth