Expressive Quotes

I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

I'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up.

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

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.

Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to you is an insane thought.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for a public setting.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

I encourage people to play around, mix proportions, textures, seasons and prints, and to find what makes them feel their most comfortable and expressive.

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.

I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.

I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way.

My face is not that expressive!

Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.

If you're genuinely candid and expressive then you're never wrong, even when you are wrong.

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page

There is no greater path than the act of listening, because the observer who listens can begin to see themselves as a part of one expression of purpose and beingness.

Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!