Quotes About Expression

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.

Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup.

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

When a quiet introvert talks, heads turn, and that's power.

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

Words derive their power from the original word.

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.