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Simplicity is the glory of expression. -- Walt Whitman
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. -- Madonna Ciccone
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. -- Anne Roiphe
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. -- Henri Matisse
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. -- Billy Joel
Expression is the dress of thought. -- Alexander Pope
Expression is the mystery of beauty. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Expression is never helped by suppression. -- Ming-Dao Deng
Expression is when you are at one with nothingness. -- John Frusciante
Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic. -- Kurt Cobain
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. -- Sarah Churchwell
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye. -- Henry Fuseli
Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. -- Charles Ives
Beauty without expression is boring. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. -- Mark Helprin
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. -- Jane Addams
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit. -- Lucien Bouchard
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. -- Alan Bennett
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. -- Viktor E. Frankl
My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in. -- John Turturro
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. -- Agnes de Mille
I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. -- Maya Angelou
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. -- Jacob Lew
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. -- Ralph Marston
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. -- Walt Whitman
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. -- Ansel Adams
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. -- Mother Teresa
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. -- Noam Chomsky
The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back. -- Dale Carnegie
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. -- Dana Carvey
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. -- Yves Saint Laurent
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. -- Arthur Erickson
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love. -- James Herriot
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results. -- Judith Butler
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. -- Edward Hopper
I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression. -- Mick Jagger
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. -- Michael Jackson
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. -- James E. Faust
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. -- Richard Courant
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. -- Emmet Fox
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. -- Liu Xiaobo
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. -- Kate Adie
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. -- Helena Bonham Carter
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. -- Bruce Lee
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. -- T. S. Eliot
The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard. -- Chelsea Leyland
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book. -- Kate Bernheimer
Without music, life would be a mistake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough -- Eugene Delacroix
All religious expression is symbolism. -- Albert Pike
Desire is possibility seeking expression. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great thoughts ensure musical expression. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Italy is a geographical expression. -- Klemens von Metternich
PURPOSE is spirit seeking expression. -- Kevin Cashman
Italy is a geographical expression. -- Klemens von Metternich
Violence is an expression of impotence. -- Hannah Arendt
Architecture is an expression of values. -- Norman Foster
Italy is only a geographical expression. -- Klemens von Metternich
Literature is the expression of society. -- Charles Nodier
The expression of truth is simplicity. -- Seneca the Younger
Self-expression without craft is for toddlers. -- Rosanne Cash
Emotion constantly finds expression in bodily position. -- Mabel Elsworth Todd
The environment can actually affect gene expression. -- Michael Marmot
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime. -- Lou Reed
Abduction is a romantic expression of passion. -- Nicole Jordan
Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression. -- Joseph C. Aldrich
The outward expression of empathy is courtesy. -- Stewart Butterfield
Generosity is a practical expression of Love. -- Gary Inrig
True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion. -- Angel Haze
Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect". -- Richard Summerbell
Philosophy is the rational expression of genius. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Guns give Evil a means to expression. -- Jonathan Heatt
The greatest expression of rebellion is joy. -- Joss Whedon
Online communities are an expression of loneliness. -- Joanne Harris
Giving is the highest expression of potency. -- Erich Fromm
A Moment, however small, defines an expression. -- Sagar Gosavi
Self expression is a function of responsibility. -- Werner Erhard
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty. -- Bryant H. McGill
Dressing well is an expression of manners. -- Tom Ford
The expression of divinity is in variety. -- Sheri S. Tepper
Control of vibrato helps your musical expression. -- James Galway
Be a living expression of God's kindness. -- Mother Teresa
Love is itself an expression of strength. -- Elizabeth Lowell
Why is non-commercial public expression considered criminal? -- Shepard Fairey
In trees, I see expression and soul -- Vincent Van Gogh
The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso. -- Ernesto Illy
Modesty is a noble expression of honesty -- Constance Chuks Friday
Joy is the highest expression of love. -- Esther Hicks
Design is a dreadful form of expression -- Philippe Starck
Temples are an expression of God's love -- Jean A. Stevens
The idol is the expression of religion. -- Swami Vivekananda
Suicide is the selfishness at its maxima expression -- Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. -- Nikki Giovanni
Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions -- Alanis Morissette
clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression. -- Radclyffe Hall
Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. -- Adolf Hitler
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. -- Pearl S. Buck
Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ... -- Ralph Nader
Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form. -- Bruce Lee
Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing. -- Neil Young
Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled. -- Philo
Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design. -- Jan Tschichold
Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature. -- Dale Carnegie
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. -- Paul Ricoeur
Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally. -- Radhanath Swami
Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics. -- Vladimir Lenin
Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity. -- Max Beerbohm
The most visceral expression of emotion in music. -- Milo Aukerman
I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Your best work is your expression of yourself. -- Frank Gehry
Grief is an expression that you loved well. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Needs are the expression of life through us. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The dominant expression of a child is gravity. -- Bret Harte

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