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“A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?”

Ifs Beautiful Creativity Expression Photography Photographer Impression Photography And Light

Author:Ernst Haas

“I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.”

People Ifs Writing Real Facts Subjects Expression Relate Real Music

Author:Corey Taylor

“Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.”

Children Art Self Values Process Ability Creativity Expression Skills Creating Art Is Concerned Discovering Exploring Soar Self Expression

Author:MaryAnn F. Kohl

“The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.”

People Want Teach Teaching Expression Personality Music Is

Author:Michael Kiwanuka

“For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.”

Mind Enough Movement Expression Needed Purity Intensity

Author:Rudolf Nureyev

“While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Two Book Reading Understanding Differences Pay Teacher Subjects Expression Conversation Highest Bother Operations Agreement Two Ways Learners

Author:Mortimer Adler

“Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.”

Our Lives Expression Live Life Fragmented

Author:Tobias Wolff

“But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.”

“A hat is an expression of a woman’s soul. It is something that she wears on her head, but it belongs to her heart. It is the keynote of her personality, the finishing touch that makes her look beautiful, smart, and sure of herself.”

Looks Heart Soul Beautiful Expression Personality Smart Hats Finishing Finishing Touches

Author:Lilly Dache

“It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.”

Expression Clothes Unique

Author:Tadashi Yanai

“Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.”

Feels Art Seems Form Spirit Simple Creation Expression Music Is Direct Infinite Silent Manifestation Visible Finite

Book:SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

“Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs and desperations are most dramatically split open. At the Plastic Inevitable it is All Here and Now and the Future.”

Needs Shows Generations Expression Towns Remains Contemporary Inevitable Dramatic Plastic Splits Desperation Here And Now Now And The Future

Author:Jonas Mekas

“Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.”

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

Democracy Expression Regard Primaries Can Not Freedom Of Expression

Author:Lord Hailsham

“Love is itself an expression of strength.”

Love Is Expression

Author:Elizabeth Lowell

“I think there's just certain lyrics and certain forms of hip-hop that definitely rang true, again, to a lot of people's truth, but you don't necessarily want to hear someone using that as a just kind of a in-the-moment, fun, careless expression.”

People Thinking Want Kind Moments Form Certain Fun Expression Hip Hop Hips Hops Careless

Author:Solange Knowles

“For myself I never plan the way I deliver a message. I do prepare the content, and then I open my mouth and give it. And so the expression, the gestures, the emphasis on words, all of that just comes.”

Way Giving Plans Expression Messages Mouths Gestures Emphasis

Author:Anne Graham Lotz

“When you're wearing an animal costume and something bad happens, your facial expression doesn't change. The animal is deadpan the whole time. If you're skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion. It's just a stoic gorilla, wildly falling down a hill, out of control.”

Ifs Whole Happens Fall Animal Emotion Expression Suits Hills Costumes Falling Down Skiing Stoic Facial Gorillas Facial Expression

Author:Demetri Martin

“The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.”

World Way Play Life Is Speak Expression One Way Consistently Commonplace

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.”

Self Expression Materials Offers Self Expression Material Things

Author:Randy Gage

“Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.”

Firsts Values Song Pleasure Expression Listening Music Is Personal Expression

Author:Charles Duhigg

“Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.”

Soul Hard Seems Conditions Expression Originals

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Honestly, amongst all of the SHINee members, in the terms of looks, physique, expression, and everything is charismatic, and the only phrase to describe the person is 'near perfection', that member is... ME!”

Looks Persons Term Expression Members Perfection Honestly Phrases Charismatic Physique Shinee

Author:Onew

“The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.”

Way Important America Situation Information Expression Tradition Philosophical Response Passing Passings Oral Tradition

Author:August Wilson

“Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.”

Prayer Attention Objects Expression Sacred Intention Centering Centering Prayer

Author:Thomas Keating

“In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'”

Done Purpose Prayer Divine Expression Angel Agents Divine Purpose Thy Will Be Done

Book:In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey

Source: In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey

“Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.”

Sometimes Feelings Lying Expression Spontaneous Deceived Precision Infallible Involuntary

Author:Oliver Sacks

“Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.”

Age Values Found Numbers Expression Western Various Alternatives Fascism Marxism Legion American Values Enamored

Author:Dennis Prager

“Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.”

War Democracy Expression

Author:Asif Ali Zardari

“I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.”

World Way Should Kind Art Self Feelings Audience Creative Expression Industry Expectations Excited Engagement Constraints Self Expression

Author:Ayad Akhtar

“As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.”

Creative Expression Directors Actresses Creative Expression

Author:Mary Stuart Masterson

“In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.”

Action Film Actors Expression Built Silent Complexes Setting Settings Plot Gestures Nails Facial Facial Expression Silent Films

Author:Laurie R. King

“There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.”

World Art Ends Artist Expression Limits Infinite

Book:Let There Be Sculpture

Source: Let There Be Sculpture

“When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. "High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college." But it's true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.”

People Long School Guy College Expression Mets High School Bullying Arrogant Shocked Preventing Hazing

Author:Rosalind Wiseman

“My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.”

Philosophy Use Expression Patient Be Patient Norwegians

Book:Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line

Source: Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line

“I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.”

Knows Happens Next Mystery Expression Tools Valuable Experiments Chapters Next Chapter

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.”

“Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.”

Expression Concrete Vegas Las Vegas Glitter

Author:John Burdett

“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.”

“Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate.”

Way Humans Kind Reason Human Beings Fashion Expression Communicate My Way

Author:Ann Demeulemeester

“Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.”

Needs Humans Enough Joy Desire Expression Aspiration Geometry

Author:Akira Yoshizawa

“If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.”

“The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.”

Men Character Helping Problem Faces Interesting Expression Speech Ordinary Solve Mood Ingenuity Countenance Interesting Characters Newman

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.”

Heart May Persons Character Interesting Seeing Expression Majors Selfish Former Latter Stomach Organs Doubted Interesting Characters Selfish Person

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.”

Ifs Mind Character Eye Faces Names Interesting Expression Her Eyes Wrinkles Interesting Characters Inscriptions

Book:Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

Source: Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

“The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.”

Looks Made Funny Expression Ten Humorous Distance Miles Commanders

Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.”

Wells May Art Form Poetry Language Expression Involved Elements Features Analysis Poetic Conventional Iconic

Author:Yuri Lotman

“Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.”

Home Expression Beans Nonverbal Using Words

Author:Rowan Atkinson