Expression Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Real, Moving

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Death, Health

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Essence of the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, p.16, Harmony

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• For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Art, Self, Chess

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview With Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Humanity, Literature, Outlook

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Certain

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.236, Seven Stories Press

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• Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

  Albert Camus

  Religious, Art, Mean

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.270, Vintage

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• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  Vera Brittain

  Political, Immature, Immaturity

  Rebel Passion (1964) ch. 1

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

  Juan Goytisolo

  Respect, Country, Intellectual

  "Understanding Juan Goytisolo". Book by Randolph D. Pope, 1995.

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• David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

  Lance Loud

  Gay, Boys, Style

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• Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

  Paul Twitchell

  Space, Substance, Records

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• The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Doctrine, Constant, Liberalism

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.274, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Believe, Struggle, Mean

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• The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

  El Lissitzky

  Men, Heaven, World

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• When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

  Matthew Ashford

  Character, Mirrors, Faces

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• A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Attitude, Historical

  Mark Twain (1876). “Mississippi Writings”, p.488, Library of America

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• But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

  Mark Strand

  Thinking, Self, Blind

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• A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Revenge, Mistake, Men

  Mary Baker Eddy (1990). “Ciencia y salud: con clave de las escrituras”, Writings of Mary Baker Eddy

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• We must always apologize for talking painting.

  Paul Valery

  Talking, Apologizing, Painting

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• Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Men, Hands

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

  Sean William Scott

  Liberty, Too Much, Lyrical

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• A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.

  John F. Carlson

  Beautiful, Art, Illustration

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• In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

  Guido Molinari

  Color, Trying, Use

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• The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the greatness, the largeness of spirit. Who knows what he looked like? I'm painting a man who looks like he could actually do what Nephi did.

  Arnold Friberg

  Greatness, Men, Looks

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• There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.

  Georges Vantongerloo

  Art, Needs, Geometry

  Georges Vantongerloo (1948). “Paintings, sculptures, reflections”

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