“Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.” SoundTelevisionExpressionCommunicationProveAskingCommunicateGesturesSpeakersFacialWatchersFacial Expression Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk
“The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.” ArtObjectsExpressionProveFindingsArt IsInfiniteRealmsRepresentationSublimeFittingProve It Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.” IfsGivingMeanInterestRealizingExpressionGayProveCreaturesFellowsConstantUglyConversionPreservesFeaturesSimplestGentlenessCosmeticsHarshness Author:Berthold Auerbach
“While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.” IfsMeanPersonsSelfIndividualNaturalInformationExpressionProveInsaneMediumsInsanityPublishingSelf Expression Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi
“I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.” PeopleIfsTryingFirstsLooksHeartStoriesFacesTermExpressionBattleProveHundredCamerasStrategyPhotographVietnamCiviliansCasualties Author:Horst Faas
“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.” MomentsDreamMightFacesPoliticalMemoriesLossRaceCitiesParticularExpressionMaterialsProveInnocenceInjuryWoundedLoss Of Innocence Book:Against the Day Source: Against the Day