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“Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.”

Ideas Brain Expression Pure Fancy Pants

Author:Lev Yilmaz

“The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.”

Artist Brain Expression Invisible Sensations Delicate Great Art Great Artist

Book:An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin

Source: An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin

“I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.”

Giving Heart Littles Rooms Brain Expression My Heart Standing Stranger Spots Vacation

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.”

Heart Self Inspiration Able Beautiful Brain Morning Struggle Pieces Wonderful Cry Expression Conception Midnight Self Expression All Alone Morning After Wonderful Day

Author:Gene Stratton-Porter

“When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.”

Kind Humor Funny Race Brain Expression Jokes

Book:The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

“There are cells in the brain that respond to faces. This is one of the reasons that I deal with portraiture. We can learn a lot about our perception of facial expression from the behavior of these cells.”

Reason Faces Deals Brain Expression Behavior Perception Cells Facial Portraiture Facial Expression

Author:Eric Kandel

“We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.”

Knows Way Writing Doe School Brain Class Subjects Expression Paper Pens My Thoughts English Class

Author:David McCullough

“I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.”

Different Brain Expression Mood Different Moods

Author:Craig McDean

“Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.”

Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc

“I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of a coherent alternative to the idea that mutations take place in individuals, not communities, so that whatever rewiring of the brain yielded the apparently unique properties of language, specifically recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions, would therefore have taken place in an individual, and only later been used among individuals who had inherited this capacity.”

Thinking Ideas Used Individual Language Community Brain Taken Generations Expression Unique Capacity Property Alternatives Instant Mutation

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group (and there seems to be no coherent alternative), then interaction must have been a later phenomenon.”

Ifs Has Beens Seems Individual Brain Generations Groups Expression Alternatives Phenomenon Interaction

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I have not suggested that the emergence of language is instantaneous. Rather, that the rewiring of the brain enabling an infinite array of structured expressions was in effect instantaneous. I have never heard of an alternative to this suggestion.”

Language Brain Heard Effects Expression Infinite Alternatives Suggestions Enabling Emergence Instantaneous

Author:Noam Chomsky

“No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.”

People Knows Causes Brain Expression Individuality Conception Chemicals Genes Soup Womb Modification Fluctuation Wiring Haphazard

Author:Steven Pinker

“I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.”

Heart Brain Audience Expression Pure

Author:John C. Reilly