Quotes About Expression

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.

Never underestimate the power of a shoe.

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I'm interested in.

Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

Never underestimate the power of dramatic lips.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.