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Quotes About Expression

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
~ Max Planck
Art can contradict Science.
~ Austin Osman Spare
It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
~ Steven Adler
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
~ Anthony Burgess
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.
~ Guglielmo Marconi
Good writing isn't a science. It's an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.
~ David Foster Wallace
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.
~ Carl Jung
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
~ Albert Einstein
I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize
~ Joseph Campbell
I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
~ Oscar Wilde
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
~ Edgard Varese
Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].
~ Halsey
Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.
~ David Steindl-Rast
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
~ Arthur Erickson
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.
~ John Edensor Littlewood
I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.
~ Frank Wilczek
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
~ Charles Kettering
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.
~ Samuel Johnson
Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.
~ Oliver Sacks
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
~ Josef Albers