Expression Quotes - Page 7

• Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

  George Farquhar

  Funny, Humorous, Heaven

  'The Constant Couple' (1699) act 5, sc. 3

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• Movement has the capacity to take us to the home
  of the soul, the world within for which we have
  no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature,
  and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance,
  we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives.
  When brought forth from the inside and forged by
  the desire to create personal change, dance has the
  profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.

  Anna Halprin

  Life, Change, Dance

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• Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Life, Dance, Being Yourself

  "Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎" by Margot Fonteyn, (p. 81), 1975.

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• Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

  Lee Strasberg

  Lying, Reality, Two

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• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  Barnett Newman

  Art, Leaving, Painting

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• When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Smart, Dirty, Frustration

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• If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

  Gustav Mahler

  Funny, Music, Piano

  Letter to Max Marschalk, March 26, 1896.

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• American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

  Pat Conroy

  Patience, Women, Grief

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  If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, Philosophy, Differences

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

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• It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Wisdom, Native American, Voice

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• Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  God, Christian, Feelings

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.54, InterVarsity Press

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• All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Men, World

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• I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

  Mark Rothko

  Self, Painting, Self Expression

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• Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Inspiration, Different, Way

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• I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Healthy, Trying, Body

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• Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Play, Ideas

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• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

  Edgard Varese

  Mean, Science, Needs

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.

  Antoni Tapies

  Real, Lying, Ideas

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• One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Submissive, Sincere

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• To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Mean, Color

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.

  Norman Rockwell

  Relax, Firsts, Natural

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• The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

  Lydia M. Child

  Eye, Genius, Language

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Mean, Simple

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• The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

  Eliot Engel

  Country, Rights, Sacred

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• The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Sublime, Infinite

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