Expression Quotes - Page 45

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Uplift, your mind is a gift.

We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.

Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.

My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.

Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself---what's the expression---ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty Orientalism which had insidiously affected every channel of expression...The fact that these influences are all traceable to one racial source [Judaism] is something to be reckoned with...Our opposition is only in ideas, false ideas, which are sapping the moral stamina of the people.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.