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“In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.”

Expression Goes On Ancient Finished Greece Ancient Greece Expired

Author:Budd Schulberg

“Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.”

Action Values Energy Social Expression Pure Direct Meaningless One Sided Direct Action Social Values

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.”

Reality Form Expression Ideals Direct Aesthetic Assimilation

Author:Karl Marx

“You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.”

People Character Reality Speak Heard Expression Speech Interviews

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words.”

Way Movement Expression Easier My Favorite Favorites Things Gymnast

Author:Kristin Kreuk

“I always loved writing as a tool of expression.”

Writing Expression Tools

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.”

Ifs Writing Mind Book Soul Ends Young Found Lines Simple Expression Pages Moved Drawing Discussion Phases Imagery Young Minds Illustrating

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.”

Thinking Important Stories Vision Roles Expression Periods Integrity Endure Multiple Keepers

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression.”

Thinking Mean Important Self Wonderful Fashion Expression Self Expression

Author:Brie Larson

“I guess I'm pretty lucky because in childhood I studied so many martial arts styles and I never stopped researching them, my body is very adjustable and I can turn into different expressions with my body.”

Art I Can Different Body Turns Childhood Style Expression Lucky Martial Arts Different Expressions

Author:Donnie Yen

“There's an expression in life: "You can only make one first impression." And that first impression has to be spectacular. So, I wait, and let people see it when it's ready to go. It's not a set rule, but I think it's the better way of working. People will agree with you because of your track record, but you want people to like it because it's good, not because you found it.”

People Thinking Way Want Firsts Found Waiting Records Ready Expression Agree Track Impression Spectacular Better Ways First Impression Track Record

Author:Simon Cowell

“My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.”

Faces Sound White Loneliness Expression Wall Solitude Music Is White Walls

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski.”

Kind Art Individual Stars Creative Example Expression Originals Structure Response Theoretical Creative Work Catalogues Maxwell

Book:The World of Mathematics

Source: The World of Mathematics

“Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.”

Mean Expression Cinema

Author:Orson Welles

“Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question.”

“Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?”

Desire Expression Duty Neighbor Fulfillment

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.”

Source: The Novels of Victor Hugo: Profusely Illustrated with Elegant Wood Engravings

“Humankind is closer to experiencing paradise than ever before. We have the technology to feed every person in the world and the knowledge to provide a means of self-expression, self worth, shelter and more, for all people everywhere if we wish to do so.”

People Ifs World Mean Persons Self Wish Technology Expression Self Worth Paradise Humankind Shelter Self Expression

Book:Mutant Message Down Under

Source: Mutant Message Down Under

“... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.”

Men Giving Faces Wise Stupid Expression Fool Photograph Hunger Innocence Thirst Outlaw Wretchedness Hunger And Thirst Ruffian

Author:Mark Twain

“The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as a man-made dream - the two, of course, being intimately connected and interacting with each other.”

Men Mind Made Two Dream Artist Courses Expression Connected Mediums Lenses Interacting

Book:The Act of Creation

Source: The Act of Creation

“Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.”

Men Way Believe Fighting Given Creative Expression Members Benefits Enterprise Urges Free Enterprise

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)”

Vision Movement Expression Photography Cosmic Embodiment

Author:Paul Strand

“The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.”

Writing Wells Ends Artist Break Achieve Century Painting Expression Photography Aim Instruments Blind Blow Appearance Invention Mortals Imitation Assured Nineteenth Century Recklessness

Author:Andre Breton

“You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?”

Ifs Thinking Looks Persons Whole Might Interesting Imagine Week Subjects Expression Wind Research Studios Spending Capture Gestures Thumbs Chins Ahead Of Time Soaking Baloney Ottawa Ambiance

Author:Duane Michals

“I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.”

Ifs Study Focus Movement Expression Essentials Crosses Cameras Raised Take Time Sections Revealing Fractions

Author:Julio Cortazar

“I remember from when I use to be a dancer, there is an expression among dancers, I had a T-shirt that said: SHUT UP AND DANCE.”

Said Use Remember Expression Shirts Dancer Shut Up T Shirt Use To Be

Author:Christopher Walken

“Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life.”

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.”

Kind Different Levels New York Expression Different Levels Eclectic

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)”

Would Be Earth Faces Found Expression

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”

Form Life Is Creation Expression Inspirational Life Meaning Of Life Infinity Single Life What Is The Meaning Of Life

Author:Michael Jackson

“Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.”

Way Use Easy Lines Comedy Expression Timing Facial Facial Expression

Author:Melissa Joan Hart

“I remember it as if it were today... seeing him [Che] framed in the viewfinder, with that expression. I am still startled by the impact... it shakes me so powerfully. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)”

Ifs Stills Today Remember Seeing Expression Impact Shakes Iconic Framed

Author:Alberto Korda

“I did rhythmic gymnastics and I absolutely adored it. I was in the squad for Sussex. I wasn't stupendous, but it was something that I was good at and I really loved the combination of discipline and expression. That, to me, was just dreamy.”

Expression Discipline Combination Gymnastics Dreamy Squad

Author:Gwendoline Christie

“Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a remedy for my expressions.”

Inspiration Expression Singers Remedy Recorders Violinist Looking For Inspiration

Author:Michala Petri

“When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential campaign, Eszterhas wrote "Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression."”

Men Should Running Creative Expression Hollywood Campaigns Presidential Als Voters Mates Gore Freedom Of Expression Donate Presidential Campaign Creative Freedom

Author:David Shuster

“Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.”

Men Should Creative Expression Hollywood Voters Freedom Of Expression Donate Creative Freedom

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“I've done choir since I was tiny, and I've always tried to get into plays. They all just meshed together. Now with my career, especially with music, people are like, "Which one do you pick?" I don't pick either. They're just different expressions of who I am.”

People Different Done Play Together Careers Expression Picks Tiny Who I Am Choir Different Expressions

Author:Tinsel Korey

“Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.”

Matter Enough Language Expression Music Is

Author:Gwenno

“It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.”

Children Mother Social Expression Behavior Roots Primates Mother And Child Social Behavior

Author:Jane Goodall

“The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality.”

Source: Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti

“I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.”

Knows Way Want Found Gone Rich Wonderful Impossible Streets Expression Materials Planning Etc Composition Accustomed

Author:Tina Modotti

“Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.”

Thinking Careers Mankind Expression Ministry Think Of You Service To Mankind Expressions Of Love

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a single expression. If many photographs of a person were taken at different times, perhaps even years apart, their composite would possess that in which a single photograph is deficient.”

Ifs Years Persons Different Lying Artist Taken Expression Concerned Photograph Catching Best Work Inferiority Resemblance Different Times Composites Resemblance Is

Author:Francis Galton

“We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.”

Mean Eye Used Found Vision Possibility Expression Offers Photography Cameras Technique Mediums Artistic Characteristics Visuals Totality

Author:Piet Zwart

“By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.”

“The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.”

Children Facts Light Figures Particular Expression Wind Paper Infinite Photograph Mood My Children Tension Muscles Shade Afternoon Fractions Posture Variables

Book:Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

Source: Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

“Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo should not depend on ideas, should go beyond ideas.”

Thinking Way Should Ideas Expression Depends Photographer My Way Way Of Thinking

Author:Edouard Boubat

“If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.”

Ifs Body Faces Expression Response Portraits Viewers

Author:Charis Wilson

“I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.”

Moral Issues Policy Expression Conservative Freedom Of Expression Moral Issues Fiscal Policy

Author:Mick Jagger

“The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls.”

Men America Lying Dog Expression Balls

Author:Dana Gould

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