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Quotes About Expression

Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.
~ Edith Piaf
Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.
~ Ken Robinson
The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.
~ Alexey Brodovitch
An artist is a person who has invented an artist.
~ Harold Rosenberg
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.
~ Paul Gauguin
I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.
~ Paolo Veronese
No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.
~ Brenda Ueland
Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
~ Ken Robinson
I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.
~ Michael Ian Black
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.
~ Federico Fellini
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
~ Susan Sontag
I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.
~ Brassai
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
~ Cennino Cennini
Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.
~ Sondra Horton Fraleigh
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
~ Louise Leakey
The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.
~ Susan Sontag
Beauty is a sign of intelligence.
~ Andy Warhol
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.
~ Tom Heinsohn
What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.
~ Sam Neill