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“Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.”

Art Light Beautiful Form Morning Cutting Expression Flower Elements Rose Smell Traditional Delicate Perfume Dew Damp Arranging Minimalist Bouquets Japanese Art

Author:Jean-Claude Ellena

“I've had every haircut you could possibly imagine: mullet, tail, dreadlocks, afro, crew cut. It's always been an expression of who I am.”

Cutting Imagine Expression Who I Am Tails Crew Haircuts Afros Dreadlocks Mullets New Haircut

Author:Marc Forgione

“The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .”

Said Shows Law Evil Cutting Expression Masters Lovers Holy Tyrants Preacher Minimum Show Me Honored Rubbish Necessary Evil

Author:Anthony de Mello

“China didn't want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul - which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless, I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.”

Thinking Want Ideas Soul Government Loses Technology Cutting Expression Regret Edges China Nevertheless Suicidal Freedom Of Expression Cutting Edge

Author:Ai Weiwei

“By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.”

Men Mean Sleep Cutting Events Expression Ordinary Constitution Rage Thrown Lions Sloth Ordinary Man Great Events Assemblage

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.”

Should Form Cutting Expression Clean Excellence Sensuous

Author:Raymond Loewy

“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”

Cutting Expression Freedom Of Expression Explicit

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“When I find that I am more conscious, it's because I'm in tune with a higher reality. When I'm less conscious, it's because I've cut off that entunement to some extent. Maybe through drinking, through anger, through whatever. And I realized then that God has to be an infinite consciousness, and that I had to be an expression of that consciousness. And that the goal of life then must be to become more and more in tune with that consciousness. And I decided to give my life to God. And around that time, to make a long story short, I found Autobiography of a Yogi.”

“In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.”

Should Self Form Order Creative Cutting Expression Complicated Private Life Self Expression Creative Work Complicated Things

Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

“I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.”

Book Seems Emotion Cutting Expression Pages Appreciation Sentences Chosen Fifty Urges Possessed Brevity

Book:Dreams From My Father

Source: Dreams From My Father