Expression Quotes
The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.
"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.
A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.
Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.
We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.
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.
Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.
One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.
If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.
For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.
It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.
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.
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good
The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.
The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.