Expression Quotes - Page 9

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Happiness, Art, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

  Richard Foreman

  Twilight, Gdp, Civilization

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• At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Safe Haven, Emotional, Self

  "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.

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• Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  People, Cinema, Littles

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• Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Entrepreneur, Profit, Enterprise

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.153, Transaction Publishers

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• Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Music, Spiritual, Strong

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• When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.

  Robby Krieger

  Kings, Guitar, Berries

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• The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

  John Stuart Mill

  Opportunity, Errors, Race

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.163, Hackett Publishing

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• The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

  Emmet Fox

  Life, Change, Art

  Emmet Fox (1938). “The Sermon on the Mount: a general introduction to scientific Christianity in the form of a spiritual key to Matthew V, VI, and VII”

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• My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

  John Turturro

  Lying, Self, Identity

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• The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

  Alberto Korda

  Photography, Firsts, Women Beauty

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• A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

  Anne Roiphe

  Love, Smile, Beauty

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• 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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

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• Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Truth, Science

  "The Lie of the Truth (Volume 2)". Book by Rene Daumal, 1938.

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• Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

  Kay WalkingStick

  Art, Mean, Way

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• An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.

  Gerald Brommer

  Artist, Sound, Looks

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• I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

  Henri Matisse

  Gains, Clarity, Ends

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Mean, Thinking, Feelings

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• Italy is only a geographical expression.

  Klemens von Metternich

  History

  "Memorandum to the Great Powers" by Klemens Wenzel, August 2, 1814.

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• Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

  Henri Matisse

  Passion, Faces, Details

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, God, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.289, Image

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• Desire is possibility seeking expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Desire, Possibility, Seeking

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• Intuition comes from the whole person, from a place that includes the conscious and the unconscious. The total result of all feelings and perceptions manifests spontaneously through intuition. Intuition gives expression to the feelings; that expression is unique and perfectly fitted to the needs of the moment.

  Michele Cassou

  Unique, Giving, Feelings

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• Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

  Janet Lane-Claypon

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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