Expressive Quotes - Page 9

• I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of writers, or anyone else who tries to make art out of life. Through science they had reached the expressive.

  Vivian Gornick

  Art, Book, Trying

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". The Believer Interview, believermagblog.wordpress.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.

  Dolora Zajick

  Voice, Imagination, Singing

  "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.

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• We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Soul, Special

  Christopher Morley (1925). “Safety pins: and other essays”

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• There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Writing, Differences

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

  Gustave Courbet

  Lying, Artist

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• To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.

  Jim Woodring

  Beautiful, Brother, Powerful

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.

  Myron Uhlberg

  Beautiful, Expression, Hands

  Myron Uhlberg (2009). “Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love”, p.92, Bantam

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• I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

  Adrian Tomine

  Emotional, Stories, Way

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and trajectory; an ability to execute the details on the page from largest to smallest; technical command, and hopefully a connection with the overall expressive impulse (though the latter is not at all necessary to give a good performance).

  Michael Hersch

  Strong, Giving, Understanding

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.

  Margaret H'Doubler

  Children, Expression, Order

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• Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

  John Nettles

  Guitar, Play, World

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.... It is wonderful how we get about the streets without being wounded by these delicate and glancing weapons, a man can so nimbly whip out his rapier, or without being noticed carry it unsheathed. Yet it is rare that one gets seriously looked at.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, Society

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers”

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• I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Style, Listening

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• Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Quality, Term, Diminish

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• You have a white guy as an announcer and sportscaster. Me, I'm black. I do it and I've already done some stuff in the past. We're more expressive than the white guys. You look at the skill players. We're the ones that get into the end zone. We get in the end zone more than they do.

  Terrell Owens

  Past, Player, Skills

  "Top 10: Big Mouths In Sports" by Phil Helm, www.askmen.com.

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• The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography.

  Herb Lubalin

  People, Needs, Typography

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• The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a little bit. It eliminates that finite viewing period which I think is not so expressive sometimes.

  Marco Brambilla

  Photography, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

  Ha Jin

  Language, Natural, Plastic

  "The iPad Needs Norman Mailer, and The Paris Review" by Lea Carpenter, bigthink.com.

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• The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem.

  Hedley Beare

  Assessment, Curriculum, Found

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• I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched my capacity to abstract intellectually. The experience of being with workers, my encounters with management and my recognition of its foibles, my personal encounters with American industrial efficiency, my military experience - all of these things packaged together have greatly enriched my reading and my understanding, and I've written with what I hope is a reasonable fluency of style that is much more expressive than the academic stuff.

  Murray Bookchin

  Military, Reading, Thinking

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, "Hey, we're all going to be okay. We just need to work together."

  Bethany Cosentino

  Artist, People, Empowering

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

  Rachel Cusk

  Book, Artist, Justice

  "Rachel Cusk: 'Divorce is only darkness'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

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• The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

  Sidney Poitier

  Impact, Black, Hollywood

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• I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Thinking, Musician

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• I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business. I'm really glad that I was famous and successful at the time I was because it was bad enough then in a profession which tended to eat you up and never give you any free time. But I think that the youngsters today have a really bad time from every angle.

  Shirley Eaton

  Successful, Thinking, Giving

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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