Expression Quotes - Page 5

• Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Love, Nature, Attachment

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Sonnet

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.164, GENERAL PRESS

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• The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Order, Principles, Different

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• Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

  James A. Michener

  Country, Russia, Ideas

  "A Spelunker in the Caves of History". "Modern Maturity" Magazine, August 1985.

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• Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

  Jim Hodges

  Reality, Color, Abstract

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• I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

  James Herriot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cat

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• Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

  Norman Lindsay

  Art, Inspiration, Agency

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• 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.

  Karl Rahner

  Mean, Giving, Body

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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational Life, Single Life, Meaning Of Life

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• I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspirational, Graduation, Dream

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• Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Men, Fools Day

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• Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Ego, Selfishness, Four Agreements

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• I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Fear, Adequate

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

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• One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Funny, Humor, Literature

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• 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.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Unique, Men

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• Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Communication, Self, Thought Provoking

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• The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Artist, Strive, Should

  Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).

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• For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Army, Air

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• A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

  Evan Davis

  Self, Law, Example

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• Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Wisdom, Literature

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• Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Art, Men, Personality

  Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Waltraud Suzuki (1983). “Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education”, p.82, Alfred Music

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• Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

  James Allen

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

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• Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

  Joseph Conrad

  Flower, Garden, Criticism

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1153, e-artnow

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• What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

  Naum Gabo

  Art, Philosophy, Thinking

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