Quotes About Expression

As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy." His eyes flickered to Clare. "Even to forgive.

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.

There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman's whole look.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it, or describe it, and it's a monster.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.