Expression Quotes

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

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

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

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.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

Italy is a geographical expression.

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

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

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

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

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

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

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.