“In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.” ChildrenSoulSelfExpressionShapesMythGreekPoeticSelf Expression Author:Hermann Hesse
“Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.” WayDoeArtWholePainTogetherLeftDifficultConsciousnessTakenExpressionShapesUniqueSentencesTerritoryPropositionsLeft AloneLeft OutTogether AgainIncomprehension Author:Jacques Barzun
“I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.” MenStillsExpressionPersonalityShapesProjectsDignityEvery ManScalesFascinatingClothingsHandfulFind Me1930s Author:Yves Saint Laurent
“With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.” LyingDifferencesPaintingExpressionShapesIdiosyncrasiesMonochrome Author:Guido Molinari
“It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.” SoulCertainTurnsSimpleOpinionExpressionDevelopmentHabitShapesAssumingAffectionImpressionFeaturesHabitualCountenancePhysiognomy Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.” GivingWellsArtActionPoliticalDesirePoliticsProcessCreativeImagineExpressionShapesDrawingCreative ProcessPolitical Action Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other.” FeelsTryingColorExpressionShapesCreator Author:Sonia Rykiel
“Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.” HumansBodyHandsBeautifulLanguageMovementExpressionShapesVisualsHuman BodyExpressiveFacialFacial ExpressionBody Movement Book:Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love Source: Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
“The New Apostolic Reformation is an extraordinary work of the Holy Spirit that is changing the shape of Christianity globally. It is truly a new day! The Church is changing. New names! New methods! New worship expressions! The Lord is establishing the foundations of the Church for the new millennium. This foundation is built upon apostles and prophets. Apostles execute and establish God's plan on the earth.” EarthSpiritNamesChurchChristianityLordPlansExpressionHolyShapesWorshipBuiltMethodFoundationExtraordinaryHoly SpiritProphetNew DayApostlesReformationMillenniumGod's PlanApostolic Author:C. Wagner