Expression Quotes

All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

With each expression of love, the entire world is touched.

In trees, I see expression and soul

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.

When the mind changes the outer expression must change to correspond. We are transferred by the renewing of our minds.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.

To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.

The most visceral expression of emotion in music.

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

It don't mean nothing til you sign it on the dotted line.

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

The success gene lives in every person regardless of the results they are presently getting - we are spiritual beings and spirit is always for expansion and fuller expression.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

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.

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.

Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

My Body, My Soul and I. My body is mine, but my body is not me, My body is an expression of my soul. My soul is mine, but my soul is not me, My soul is an expression of me - for I am.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

Expression is never helped by suppression.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.

An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.