Expression Quotes

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

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

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

All I care about is free speech and free expression; I want people to be able to be, do, and say anything.

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

Cruise the diamond district with my biscuit.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

Take a journey to the realm of the truth.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

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?

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Temples are an expression of God's love

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.

If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.