Expression Quotes

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, an...

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculati...

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not w...

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, the...

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...

More of me comes out when I improvise.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expressi...

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, bu...

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: bu...

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't ex...

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a sc...

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ...

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It...

It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty...

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I...

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world'...

Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I thin...

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all wort...

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. T...

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begi...

Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… ...

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch...

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.

It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.'I want to express myself.'The same is true for...

...his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the mo...

I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, c...

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on...

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not...

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in ...

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else....

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participa...

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never ...

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...

Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends o...

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no ...

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, a...

I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision...

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

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei...

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering ...

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectru...

Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blindThan 2 live wit...

I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very lon...

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by...

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression un...

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sus...

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings...

True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, an...

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life des...

Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, se...

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in it...

I like you; your eyes are full of language."[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

Clover['s] eyes are full of language.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the de...

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be...

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be...

At the limit it could be said that every speaking being has a personal language of his own, that is ...

We need to encourage each other to do what we want and not let it totally define us. You know? The t...

As she looked at him, her dark gray eyes went slowly from astonishment to stillness, then to a stran...

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rathe...

When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitm...

One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more...