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Quotes About Expression

Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished.
~ Walter Isaacson
The job of art is to chase ugliness away." Bono
~ Walter Isaacson
Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word
~ Walter Isaacson
When I look into most people's eyes, I see a soul. When I look into your eyes, I see a bottomless pit, an empty hole, a dead zone.
~ Walter Isaacson
Picasso Good authors copy, great artists steal-Picassco
~ Walter Isaacson
A good painter has two chief objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul; the former is easy, the latter hard, because he has to represent it by the attitudes and movements of the limbs…The most important consideration in painting is that the movements of each figure expresses its mental state, such as desire, scorn, anger, pity, and the like. - quoted from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks
~ Walter Isaacson
Those sentences are somewhat clotted
~ Walter Isaacson
This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of 'free speech,' not 'free beer.' " For
~ Walter Isaacson
The reason Apple resonates with people is that there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves.
~ Walter Isaacson
The reason Apple resonates with people is that there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the best people working on the original Mac were poets and musicians on the side.
~ Walter Isaacson
The ladies staged tableaux vivants, in which they dressed in costume to re-create famous paintings.
~ Walter Isaacson
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer," Jobs told Fortune shortly after retaking the reins at Apple. "But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.
~ Walter Isaacson
poetry as a language within a language
~ Walter Isaacson
Many of the figures in his preparatory drawings are nude; he had come to believe in Alberti's advice that an artist should build a picture of a human body from the inside out, first conceiving of the skeleton, then the skin, then the clothing.
~ Walter Isaacson
Only in the eleventh paragraph, at the end, did he add that he was also an artist. "Likewise in painting, I can do everything possible," he wrote.
~ Walter Isaacson
Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban"
~ Walter Isaacson
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.
~ Walter Isaacson
This ability to "make a flat surface display a body as if modeled and separated from this plane," Leonardo said, was "the first intention of the painter."3
~ Walter Isaacson
Leonardo said so himself. "Intellectual passion drives out sensuality," he wrote in one of his notebooks.
~ Walter Isaacson
From the eyes of his angel in the Baptism of Christ to the smile of the Mona Lisa, the blurred and smoke-veiled edges allow a role for our own imagination
~ Walter Isaacson
Picasso tenía un dicho: "Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban"
~ Walter Isaacson
Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes
~ Walter Isaacson
I studied the relationship of their motions to their emotions. When I saw the hint of a smile come across someone's lips, I tried to fathom her inner mysteries.
~ Walter Isaacson
I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking
~ Walter Isaacson