Quotes About Expression

But what am I?An infant crying in the night:An infant crying for the light:And with no language but a cry.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

I sometimes hold it half a sinTo put in words the grief I feel;For words, like Nature, half revealAnd half conceal the Soul within.

Gorgonized me from head to foot,With a stony British stare.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.

Each creative act is the universe incarnating itself as one, and there is nothing above it by way of final condition.

Philosophy is an attempt to express the infinity of the universe in terms of the limitations of language.

Art should aim at the production of individuality in the component details of its compositions.

There are deeper types of symbolism, in a sense artificial, and yet such that we could not get on without them. Language, written or spoken, is such a symbolism.

Explicitly in the verbal sentence, or implicitly in the understanding of the subject entertaining it, every expression of a proposition includes demonstrative elements. In fact each word, and each symbolic phrase, is such an element, exciting the conscious prehension of some entity belonging to one of the categories of existence.

When I make a picture, I make love.

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?... Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Books won't stay banned - Ideas won't go to jail.

Laughter is the orgasm of the face".

Life, using matter to express itself in bodily shape, first traces a geometrical pattern. From the lowest form in crystals, upwards to more complicated patterns in the higher organisations—there is always first this geometrical pattern as skeleton.

Of course, he smothered it in words—odd words, too—melodramatic, poetic, out-of-the-way words that lie just on the edge of frenzy.