Expression Quotes

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

Italy is a geographical expression.

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.