Expressive Quotes

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. (Henri Matisse)
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. View quote
Mark Strand
Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out. View quote
Norman Rockwell
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema. View quote
Sergei Eisenstein
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul. View quote
Christopher Morley
American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. View quote
Simon Pegg
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. View quote
William Henry Ashley
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' – expressive – this is an early problem – a negative solution or – expression of new sense – which can help one into – what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention. View quote
Jasper Johns
Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem. View quote
Edward Sapir
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind. (Joseph Addison)
Air and manners are more expressive than words. View quote
Samuel Richardson
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I like the idea of contained emotion because I grew up most of my life feeling that way. As an adolescent, people would always say I was not expressive, and they always made the mistake of thinking that I didn't feel anything because I didn't react to things. View quote
Shaun Tan
The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive. View quote
Zack Snyder
Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding. View quote
Natsuki Takaya
I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face. View quote
Jessica Chastain
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head. View quote
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. View quote
Beth Gibbons
I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it. View quote
Chantal Kreviazuk
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else. (Carlisle Floyd)
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. View quote
Eva Zeisel
I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness. View quote
Faith Evans
Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art. View quote
Grant Achatz
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. View quote
Louis Kahn