Expression Quotes

The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back. (Dale Carnegie)
Dancing Is a Perpendicular Expression of a Horizontal Desire. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. View quote
Salman Rushdie
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. View quote
Thomas Mann
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. View quote
Vera Brittain
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. (James Thurber)
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. View quote
William Hazlitt
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. View quote
Bruce Lee
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. View quote
Yves Saint-Laurent
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. View quote
Billy Joel
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. View quote
Hans Hofmann
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. View quote
Hans Hofmann
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. View quote
Hans Hofmann
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea. View quote
Hans Hofmann
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression. (Earl Warren)
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. View quote
James A. Michener
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now. View quote
Rick Warren
Two things form the bedrock of any open society-freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. View quote
Salman Rushdie
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. View quote
Henri Matisse