Quotes About Expression

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

I was analyzing the guys' nonverbal communication.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.

Speak from the balls, not from the diaphram.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.

Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.

Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.

Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

I'm kind of interested in visual communication. For me it's more about suggesting than arguing a point.

I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.

I think certainly directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.