Expression Quotes - Page 28

• Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Fighting, Essentials

  "Artist Ai Weiwei: China crushes dissenting voices". www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2012.

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• I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

  Ai Weiwei

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

  "Ai Weiwei 'Does Not Feel Powerful'". www.bbc.com. October 13, 2011.

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• We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

  Ai Weiwei

  War, Ignorant, Way

  "Why I'll Stay Away From the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics". www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2008.

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• I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

  Ai Weiwei

  Silence, Free Expression, I Can

  "You're There but You're Not Existing". Interview with Jian Ghomeshi, CBC Radio Canada, March 22, 2012.

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• If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

  Ai Weiwei

  Choices, Needs, Artistic

  "Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.

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• Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Skills, Overcoming

  "Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.

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• My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Wall, Communication

  "'Shame on Me'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2011.

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• My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Two

  "'Shame on Me'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 21, 2011.

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• For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

  Ai Weiwei

  Giving Up, Mean, Responsibility

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• You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

  Ai Weiwei

  Needs, Purpose, Express Yourself

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• In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’

  Michael Hawley

  Exciting

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• John asked me to dance and I nearly died. Bingo! I then amazed myself by being very cool, calm and collected outwardly-inside I was out of this world. The dance was slow and smoochy. I was aloof and John, I think, was slightly embarrassed. It was all very painful and beautiful at the same time. The remaining students were looking on with puzzled expressions at such an unlikely combination.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Beautiful, Thinking, World

  Cynthia Lennon (1980). “A twist of Lennon”, Avon Books

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• True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Opposites, Tablets, Faces

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• Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.

  Adam Gopnik

  Sweet, Strong, Writing

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• I feel for the first time in my life that I have really come to understand what the gospel actually is. It is about a Father who lost His kids and He simply wants them back...I look forward to the day when we will see sons and daughers in their full expression and freedom, rising up out of every nation of the world, exhibiting and expressing the person, nature and works of our Father and walking like Jesus in this broken world.

  James Jordan

  Jesus, Father, Kids

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• Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Passion, Winter, Journey

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.

  Bob Mould

  Song, Thinking, Views

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• As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression. I like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music. Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques, I have tried at all times to subjugate them to a larger idea or a grander human feeling.

  Bernard Herrmann

  Art, Inspiration, Writing

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• I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns.  I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

  Jandy Nelson

  Library, Heard, Dies

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.101, Penguin

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• It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us

  Edith Schaeffer

  Christian, Artist, Men

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Real, Order, Taste

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?

  Edith Schaeffer

  Opportunity, Should Have, People

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Spiritual, Religious, Tolerance

  Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.36, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.

  Heidi Julavits

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.14, Anchor

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• Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

  Henry Williamson

  Blood, Utterance, Gestures

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