Expression Quotes

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

~ Martha Graham

Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression?

~ Jennifer Egan

I also realize that hard work is the only way I can express all that I carry within me.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to discover what it is all about ... It is even more important when scientists are called upon to play their part in the world of affairs, as is happening to an increasing extent.

~ William Lawrence Bragg

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

~ Edmond Rostand

In order to be a success, you must think like success. Get up and move! You got to make things happen.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people’s mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We cannot earn God’s blessing, it is an expression of His unending love to people

~ Sunday Adelaja

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

~ Noam Chomsky

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

~ Ansel Adams

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blindThan 2 live without expression of mind

~ Tupac Shakur

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

~ Gloria Steinem

Freedom of expression is more than a fashion statement.

~ Miss Vera

I am wealth, prosperity, and abundance. God multiplies this and I give thanks I AM receiving more and more money everyday.

~ Ron Barrow

The truest kindness to any woman is to provide her with an opportunity for self-expression in some constructive field: to work, not at home with cook-stove and scrubbing brush, but outside, independently, in the world of men and affairs.

~ William Moulton Marston

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

~ Wilkie Collins

Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were exchanged beyond the brief lines uttered to this nameless stranger, whose inclinations remained unclear. The car sped along empty roads and traversed dingy alleyways. Music blared from its speakers. I did not remember exhaling throughout the entire journey.

~ Agnes Chew

Music is an outburst of the soul.

~ Frederick Delius

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.

~ John Coltrane

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

~ Ansel Adams

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

~ Martha Graham

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

~ Criss Jami

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

~ Banksy

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

~ Ansel Adams

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

~ Christian Dior

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

~ Edward Hopper

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

~ Mark Rothko

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

~ Marc Jacobs

More of me comes out when I improvise.

~ Edward Hopper

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.

~ Lyall Watson

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

~ Charles Dickens

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.

~ Chris Matakas

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.

~ George Barr

Dance is your words expressed with movement.

~ Pablito Greco

With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.

~ Alaric Hutchinson