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“Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve to convey to others our musical expressions. Words will often pave the way for the more subtle operations of music, and unlock the treasures which sound alone can rifle, and hence the eternal popularity of song.”

Way May Song Language Sound Emotion Expression Eternal Musical Treasure Appeals Operations Subtle Popularity Definite Justified Rifles Musical Expression

Book:Music and morals

Source: Music and morals

“Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.”

Mean Soul Moments Feelings Expression Mediums Subtle Translate Shifting

Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.”

Action Expression Subtle Eyebrows Facial Flicker Facial Expression

Author:Chuck Jones

“I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.”

Thinking Evil Term Deals Moral Objects Expression Empathy Opposites Murder Extremes Defined Damage Injury Subtle Willingness Components Breeding Subjectivity Lack Of Empathy

Author:C.E. Morgan

“Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.”

May Mean Art Soul Found Felt Powerful Vision Expression Masters Art Is Subtle Spells Vivid Indefinable

Book:Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913

Source: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913

“The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”