Expression Quotes

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.

I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.

Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

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 time, this expression is unique.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.