Expression Quotes

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

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?

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

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.