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“When you boil it down, it's all a visual expression. In a sense we are all storytellers through what we wear, who we want to be, how we want people to perceive us. Life, people and the stories they consciously or unconsciously tell inspire me everyday.”

People Want Stories Inspire Expression Everyday Perceive Visuals Storyteller

Author:Marc Forster

“I truly, genuinely like clothes. Making them is an art form, and wearing them is a form of self-expression. I find it very emotional because I can remember moments in my life - my mood, how I felt - through these clothes.”

Art I Can Self Moments Remember Form Felt Emotional Expression Clothes Mood Because I Can Self Expression

Author:Diane Kruger

“We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.”

People Want Needs Artist Expression Protest Echoes

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“Self-expression, to me, is something that you worked on, that you have mastered a skill to say something in the most artful way that you can. It's not just blurting stuff out and having verbal diarrhea.”

Way Self Stuff Expression Skills Self Expression Diarrhea

Author:John Leguizamo

“Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with your buddies, you didn't go after the girls, you stayed in your own little geeky room or you wrote for hours.”

Littles Self Girl Found Hours Rooms Expression Piano Hanging Out Buddy Self Expression Found You

Author:John Leguizamo

“It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.”

Self Expression Tasks Take Time Self Expression It Takes Time

Author:John Leguizamo

“Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.”

Writing Kind Expression Machines Allowing Breaking Down Uncontrollable

Author:Kathy Acker

“Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.”

Giving Different Character Age Faces Expression Painter Your Face Complexion Bad Character Different Expressions

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and which sustains us in every expression of our human quality of life, in our aesthetic and emotional sensitivities, our intellectual perceptions, our sense of the divine, as well as in our physical nourishment and bodily healing.”

Humans Wells Community Healing Quality One Thing Emotional Divine Expression Perception Intellectual Aesthetic Sensitivity Quality Of Life Nourishment Inseparable Human Qualities

Book:The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.”

“The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.”

Source: The Works of George Santayana

“To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.”

Want Long Ideas Real Together Difficult Sound Expression Phrases Compounds Imposing Intricate Unheard Jargon

Book:Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.”

Firsts May Expression Doers

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.”

Art Expression Glory Letters Simplicity Excess Sunlight

Book:Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

Source: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

“Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.”

Expression Sacred Freedom Of Expression

Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"”

People Ifs Bigs Lasts Faces Social Attention Watches Wife Heard Dog New York Expression Seasons Function Crowds Corners Sat Sigh Inventor Unnoticed Resigned

Author:Edmund Fuller

“Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans who look to the arts for inspiration, communication and the opportunity for creative self-expression.”

Looks Art Self Inspiration Opportunity Nations Millions Creative Rich Expression Communication Source Pride Heritage Diverse Self Expression Cultural Heritage

Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?”

Ifs Mean Expression Express Yourself Freedom Of Expression

Book:The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

Source: The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

“Nakedness is very common in the tribe. It is not a shameful thing; it is an expression of one's relationship with the spirit of nature. To be naked is to be open-hearted. Normally kids stay naked until puberty and even beyond. It was only with the introduction of cheap cloth from the West, through Goodwill and other Christian organisations, that nakedness began to be associated with shame.”

Kids Christian Spirit Common Expression Shame West Naked Tribes Introduction Hearted Shameful Goodwill Organisation Puberty

Book:Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

Source: Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

“Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled.”

Emotion Expression Violent

Author:Philo

“Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.”

Soul Self Play Form Expression My Soul Self Expression Skating

Author:Josee Chouinard

“Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression.”

Emotional Expression Products Pure Emotional Expression

Author:La Meri

“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.”

“My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.”

Way Giving Space Healing Responsibility Expression Keys

Author:Gabrielle Roth

“It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.”

Want Expression Notion Obedience Romantic Love Distortion Quintessential

Book:Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

“Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.”

Mind Humans Reason Desire Expression Perfection Mathematics Active Human Mind

Author:Richard Courant

“A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'”

Writing Said Faces Party Wife Strange Expression Concerned Dinner Guests Dinner Party Thurber

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.”

Knows Years Matter Moments Easy Perfect Creative Expression Photography Musician Photographer Technique Painter Worthwhile Sculpture

Author:Paul Caponigro

“A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.”

Shows Values Expression Aesthetic Uninspired

Author:Cecil Beaton

“In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.”

Trying Expression Portraits Fleeting Snapshots Vivacity

Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.”

Self Expression Crafts Self Expression Toddler

Author:Rosanne Cash

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.”

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.”

Men Needs Littles Doe Self Artist Natural Expression Excited Scope Self Expression Little Man Natural Gifts

Book:Travesties

Source: Travesties

“If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.”

Ifs Giving Humans Used Literature Expression Breaths Investigation

Author:E. W. Howe

“Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no shortage of solicitation for endorsement, so you have to really know what you're getting behind and be passionate about it. In this case, aside from just being a spokesperson, they're benefiting a form of expression that is dear to me, painting.”

Knows Trying Years Has Beens Form Sound Behinds Cases Painting Expression Keys Charity Dear Passionate Practicals Just Being Shortage Endorsements Bedfellows Solicitation

Author:Billy Zane

“Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.”

Feelings Life Is Desire Emotion Expression Complexes Involving

Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge

“Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.”

Giving Persons Body Faces Expression

Book:The shop-talk of Edgar Degas

Source: The shop-talk of Edgar Degas

“Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.”

People Giving Body Faces Choices Attitude Expression Familiar Typical Portraits

Book:Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas

Source: Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas

“There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.”

Needs Law Suffering Natural Expression Cold Creatures Hunger Nonsense Lions Natural Law

Author:Stendhal

“Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.”

Emotion Expression Circumstances Speech Stress Objectivity Adjectives Moss Dank

Author:Ezra Pound

“Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.”

Giving Mind Self Artist Practice Color Expression Easier Access Canvas Masterpiece Self Expression Palette Captivating

Author:Jim Rohn

“Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.”

Men Use Today Purpose Individual Term Rights Expression Intellectual Chaos Contradiction Collectives Individual Rights Clarification Redundancy

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.”

Thinking Art I Can Able Dies Next Creative Expression Creating Things To Do Creative Expression Better Things To Do Creating Yourself

Author:Robert Redford

“It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.”

“It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.”

Natural Consciousness Expression Boundaries Impulse Inherent

Book:Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

Source: Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

“Whatever happens to me during the course of my life - physically, socially, or financially - I can always choose to focus on giving. When I'm in that state, nothing else matters. I cease to exist as a separate being and merge into an expression of divine oneness.”

Giving I Can Matter States Happens Courses Focus Divine Expression Cease Oneness Whatever Happens

Author:Steve Pavlina

“Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.”

Form Creativity Awareness Expression Yield Inherent

Author:Adyashanti

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Source: William Shakespeare

“In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.”

Looks Lasts Faces Deals Gone Five Minutes Dog Expression Terrible Disguise Five Minutes My Dog Repose

Author:Judy Holliday

“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.”