Expression Quotes

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its 'collective' manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each person who comes into contact with a work. The more the individual is traumatised and gripped by these emotions, the more significant a place will the work have in his experience.The aristocratic nature of art, however does not in any way absolve the artist of his responsibility to his public and even, if you like, more broadly, to people in general. On the contrary, because of his special awareness of his time and of the world in which he lives, the artist becomes the voice of those who cannot formulate or express their view of reality. In that sense the artist is indeed vox populi. That is why he is called to serve his own talent, which means serving his people.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

~ Yann Martel

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

~ Mark Jacobs

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.

~ Mark Rothko

Love has no contingencies, no expectations, no ideals. Love is a gift to thyself, the experience of divinity in full expression.

~ Erin Fall Haskell

You are not in love. Love is inside you longing for expression.

~ Debasish Mridha

The more time I spent at the Finches', the more I realized what a waste of my life this school crap was. It was nothing but a holding tank for kids without bigger plans or ideas.

~ Augusten Burroughs

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Sex is a metaphor for everything else and everything is a metaphor for sex as well. Because sex is a coming together of two weather patterns, two separate countries, two entities in a conscious state of potentially blissful crisis. Or chaos, or harmony. You’re not quite sure what’s going to happen, but it is the most catastrophic, exciting, and weakening thing that can happen to us. If we are personally involved in it, every fiber of our being is made self-conscious, or is encourages to unify on some level with others. We are delicate. We bring our damage to sexuality, we bring our hopes, we bring our self-image, we bring our world-image, we bring what we believe we are/what we believe we aren’t, our blind spots, our prejudices, our sadness. Everything comes out. A lot of people are left wanting, and confusing, and having the idea that their body is like an unloved apartment building; it’s up for grabs and it’s of absolutely no worth. If we feel that way about ourselves and if we feel that way about others, then of course, sex is nothing more than a lot of rubbing and some kind of release. But the more we are, the more we can feel, the more we can empathize, the more human we are.

~ Melinda Gebbie

To restrict oneself and somewhat settle under a particular sexual essence is to limit our expression and individual progress.

~ Nityananda Das

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

~ Sigmund Freud

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

~ J.d. Salinger

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. All those emotions — spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion, all of that — in my mind, all those emotions are red. You know, there’s nothing in between. There’s nothing beige about any of those feelings, it all comes back to me, and it’s red.

~ Taylor Swift

Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.

~ Harley King

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.

~ T.s. Eliot

I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.

~ Virginia Woolf

If u are tree, i'll be your shadow,If you free, i'll be your hobbie,If you fly,i'll be your wings,If you cry,i'll be your tears,If you are high,i'll be Your wine,If you are mad,I'll be You Love,If You are Life,I'll Be your Soul!OctavE

~ Gops Octave

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

~ Charles Dickens

As she looked at him, her dark gray eyes went slowly from astonishment to stillness, then to a strange expression that resembled a look of weariness, except that it seemed to reflect much more than the endurance of this one moment.

~ Ayn Rand

It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.'I want to express myself.'The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.'Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

~ John Ruskin

People dance because dance can change things. One move, can bring people together. One move, can make you believe like there's something more. One move, can set a whole generation free.

~ Adam G. Sevani

Boys don’t cry—or at least that’s what everybody’s supposed to believe.

~ Jess C. Scott

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

~ Joe Rogan

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original; even great artists build upon what has occurred before, and add their personality and talent to create their own original expression.

~ Stephen Tow

Real love never fails, never fades, and the greatest expression of it is giving.

~ Gena Showalter

When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust.

~ Bell Hooks

We need to encourage each other to do what we want and not let it totally define us. You know? The things that people think define them aren’t valid either. You could see a girl who’s completely covered head-to-toe and who looks like the sweetest little thing in the world, and she could be the most horrendous human being on the planet inside.

~ Ariana Grande

Express [yourself] without worrying what everyone else will think. Those people are your limits. Ignore them.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.

~ Sapphire Belucci

My thoughts fill the canvas in the sky with a spectrum of emotions. The landscape is painted through my vision. My heart warms the environment with love. The beauty lies in the depths of my soul. I am one with nature.

~ Jason Micheal Ratliff

You are the forward edge of life's advancement, in this moment in time you are the finest expression of life's brilliance.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A Moment, however small, defines an expression.

~ Sagar Gosavi

Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams.

~ Grigoris Deoudis

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

~ Gustave Flaubert

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

~ Noam Chomsky

But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.

~ Jennifer Haigh

Oh, fucking expression, attention and impression!(Dexter)

~ Deyth Banger

May every man find the softest and most fragile expression of his personality with the right woman who would treasure and honour the beauty of his femininity and not misuse it and may all women find empowering and supportive men who would exult in her self expression and success without fear of being overshadowed by the power of her masculinity and in that beautiful new world, shall we enter as partners, equal and empowering, supporting and caring, vulnerable and strong.

~ Srividya Srinivasan

Your mind, your motion and your expression is an animation to marvel and to praise.

~ Bryant Mcgill