Quotes About Expression

The raised arm and the clenched hand was a symbol of unity with the fingers coming together and a symbol of strength. It was never - I don't believe it was ever meant as a threatening gesture.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.

Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth.

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.

You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

Beauty should not be culturally relevant; it should be universal.

History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate.

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

Music and dance is universal, and I want to break borders and represent.

I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

Music is truly universal and has no boundaries.

I've always had this belief that you want to write about universal truths.

That's the beauty of art: art is universal.

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.