Quotes About Expression

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

My hand will always be imperfect because it's human… I think that's where the beauty is.

I hate pretty. It's a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

The playful search for beauty.

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who arent exposed to creative music.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.