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Quotes About Expression

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
~ Feist
Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.
~ Saul Bass
I love to give voice to things that are not very visible.
~ Alessandro Michele
Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
~ Sarah Bernhardt
Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.
~ Ken Hensley
Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.
~ Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Through an image, people are able to communicate how they're feeling, making even the most invisible struggles more visible to friends and family.
~ Marne Levine
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
~ Clive Bell
The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.
~ Phoebe Snow
I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.
~ Mary Lambert
I like art with a visible string to the world.
~ David Shields
What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
~ K. Flay
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
~ Jane Hirshfield
I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
~ Gary Hume
The cool thing about the Internet now is it's democratized platforms. Like, anybody can create a blog. Anybody can give themselves some type of place where their work is visible.
~ Luvvie Ajayi
My gaze is very different from that of Ekta Kapoor's, and that is quite visible in those two films - 'Ragini MMS 2' and 'Jism 2.'
~ Pooja Bhatt
A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen.
~ DeRay Mckesson
The political nature of 'Threepenny Opera' is immediately visible. I just think that that's not always a part of acceptable and fun entertainment that we're exposed to - that political side.
~ Sasha Velour
My job as an actor is to be visible and to tell stories.
~ Diane Guerrero
A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'
~ Gauri Khan
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
~ Salvador Dali
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
~ James Whistler
Vision is the true creative rhythm.
~ Robert Delaunay