Expression Quotes - Page 19

• All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.

  Yukio Mishima

  Writing, Years, Play

  "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters". Biography, www.imdb.com. September 12, 1985.

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• City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

  Leon Trotsky

  New York, Philosophy, Cities

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• For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leave.

  Justin Frankel

  Mean, Self, Individual

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• Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God's Kingdom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Beautiful, Fundraising, Working Together

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• An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.
  The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.

  Louis Sullivan

  Mother, Art, Mean

  Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.156, University of Chicago Press

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• I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.

  Thomas Eakins

  Thinking, Musician, Bars

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• My mind is a centre of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner in me; consequently in my own special world, of which I am the centre , it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before.

  Thomas Troward

  Moving, Mean, Past

  "The Wisdom of Thomas Troward".

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• The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic quality of color should likewise find expression in a work of art.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Color, Quality

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Search for the Real in the Visual Arts", p. 45, 1948.

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• Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

  Dario Fo

  Add, Artistic, Art Expression

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• Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

  Varg Vikernes

  Sheep, Self, Wish

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• I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Sound, Silent, Storytelling

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

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Inspirational, Generosity, Giving

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• I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.

  Carsten Juste

  Denmark, States, Ruling

  "Papers Won't Be Charged for Publishing Muslim Cartoons". www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2006.

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• I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Believe, Thinking, Voice

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• The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

  Marita Golden

  Educational, Real, Reading

  Marita Golden (2011). “The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing”, p.5, Broadway Books

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• Faithfully disciplining (training, educating, correcting) your child in a manner that pleases the Lord is an expression of biblical love. It also is a step of obedience for you as a parent and provides godly direction for your child.

  John C. Broger

  Children, Biblical, Godly

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• There come to one's soul heavenly thoughts as he joins in heavenly expressions coupled with heavenly melody.

  David B. Haight

  Music, Soul, Melody

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• Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Writing, Naked

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.29, 谷月社

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• Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.

  Italo Calvino

  Inspiration, Writing, May

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Done, Information

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• Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

  Georg Groddeck

  Disease, Humans, Organisms

  Georg Groddeck (2015). “The Book of the It”, p.213, Ravenio Books

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• Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Needs, Assuming

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• When it comes to soul, Dennis Marcellino redefines the term. His remarkable tone and feel are full of passion and soulful expression.

  Bob Carlisle

  Passion, Soul, Tone

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• My dad has a great expression. He always says, 'Tell me a fact and I'll learn, tell me the truth and I believe, but tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.' Interestingly enough now, my dad's story is going to be in Canton and hopefully that will live forever, too.

  Steve Sabol

  Dad, Believe, Heart

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• There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

  Douglas Sirk

  Real, Reflection, Glasses

  Douglas Sirk, Lucy Fischer (1991). “Imitation of Life”, p.228, Rutgers University Press

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