Quotes About Expression

Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

Carve every word before you let it fall.

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Never do anything that isn't play.

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.

The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.