Quotes About Expression

The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.

Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime." Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvellous plasticity of mind.

La comunicación simbólica es la manifestación directa de un nivel de conciencia determinado y, por tanto, de la posibilidad de desarrollarlo. La capacidad de expresar un gran contenido conceptual por medio de un símbolo es el camino de toda una expansión consciente.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

A nervous silence loosens tongues

Le langage est, en effet, l'instrument même de la pensée, et le seul moyen de lui donner des contours fermes.

For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

They bustled around chatting. It was the first time I listened closely, and I was astonished at how much they had to say, the passion with which they repeated the same thing in ten different ways so as to avoid noticing, in fact, that they had absolutely nothing to say to each other for ages, but human beings need to speak, otherwise they lose their humanity

Talking is existing.

One of the first tasks a writer faces is the need to form an ethos, a way of being in the world, that permits the writer to create and present to the world a dynamic speaking and writing self.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. . . All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it.

once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it... all the changes, good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Everything from Colette to Kerouac.

There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity.

It's easier to make up stories than it is to write them down. When I speak, the words come pouring out of me. The story wakes up and walks all over the room. Sits in a chair, crosses one leg over the other, says, Let me introduce myself. Then just starts going on and on.

And when I can't speak it, I write it down. I wish I was different. Wish I was taller, smarter, could talk out loud the way I write things down. I wish I didn't always feel like I was on the outside, looking in like a Peeping Tom.