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Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.
Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
Whether I sign a bill or not, is generally an expression of my personal view on the subject. It's not an interpretation of an existing law.
The 70's was a great time for artistic expression in Jamaica and I was in the heart of it, unconsciously soaking it up and paving my future.
In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.
Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.
True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.
My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.
Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?
One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
Psychical confidence is the external expression of our internal state of confidence. In simpler terms, it is how confidence looks and sounds.
We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.
A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.
A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'
People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.
Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.
I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.
I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.
In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free expression around the world.
The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.
Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
The Holy Eucharist is the perfect expression of the love of Jesus Christ for man since It is the quintessence of all the mysteries of His Life.
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.