Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
~By Donald Judd ~
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
~By Karl Rahner ~
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
~By Joseph Jarman ~
But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
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.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
~By Mary Ritter Beard ~
Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
~By Aslan Maskhadov ~
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
~By Ralph Marston ~
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
~By Karel Reisz ~
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.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
~By Bruce Barton ~
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
~By Yves Saint Laurent ~
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
~By Johnny Depp ~
At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
~By Ethel Rosenberg ~
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.
~By Francis Arinze ~
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
~By Eugene Ionesco ~
I paint abstract expressions.
~By Billy Zane ~
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
~By Roman Polanski ~
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
~By Dario Fo ~
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
~By Octavio Paz ~
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
~By Little Richard ~
Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
~By Andre Gide ~
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
~By Ted Rall ~
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.
~By Lyle Lovett ~
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
~By Martha Graham ~
My style is very strong poses and expressions.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
A fever is an expression of inner rage.
~By Julia Roberts ~
If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
~By Alex Chilton ~
The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.
~By Joshua Homme ~
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
~By Kim Cattrall ~
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.
~By Paul Twitchell ~
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
~By Anne Edwards ~
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
~By Howard Zinn ~
Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.
~By Eric Cantor ~
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
~By Ann Rule ~
A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.
~By David Del Tredici ~
Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.
~By John Goodman ~
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
~By Alan Bennett ~
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
~By Georg Baselitz ~
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
~By Josef Albers ~
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
~By Michael Jackson ~
The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
~By Douglas Dunn ~
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
~By Judy Holliday ~
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
~By George Eliot ~
I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.
~By James Galway ~
Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.
~By Donnie Yen ~
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
~By John McCain ~
So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.
~By Jo Brand ~
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
~By Taslima Nasrin ~
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
~By Markus Wolf ~
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.
~By Michael Schenker ~
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.
~By Tracy Kidder ~
Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.
~By Terrence Howard ~
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
~By John Ralston Saul ~
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
~By Bill Bryson ~
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.
~By El Lissitzky ~
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.
~By Dave Eggers ~
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
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.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
~By Roy Lichtenstein ~
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.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
~By Earl Warren ~
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
~By Leonard Baskin ~
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
Italy is a geographical expression.
~By Prince Metternich ~
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
~By Alfred Stieglitz ~
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
~By Vince McMahon ~
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
~By Yves Saint Laurent ~
I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
~By Ted Olson ~
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
~By Anne Roiphe ~
You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.
~By Arthur Scargill ~
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
~By Georges Rouault ~
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
~By Calvin Trillin ~
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
~By Georg Baselitz ~
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
~By John Drinkwater ~
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.
~By Alexander Kluge ~
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