The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.

People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.

Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.

Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

It's an unexplainable feeling, an expression. It's a touch, it's a feel. Once you feel it, it's like no other thing in the world.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

Pink Friday is a celebration of my life at this moment; it is a reflection of me as a creator, and an expression of me as a woman.

Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are.

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.

I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate.

I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.

The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"

When it comes to soul, Dennis Marcellino redefines the term. His remarkable tone and feel are full of passion and soulful expression.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

Rise above... cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others.

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.

I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, but there ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box.

When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

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