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I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar. -- Gary Clark, Jr.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. -- Henri Matisse
I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer. -- Robert Plant
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. -- Walt Whitman
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. -- Mark Strand
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. -- Cherrie Moraga
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. -- Aaron Copland
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. -- Louis Kahn
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head. -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared. -- Christopher Walken
Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery. -- Walter Raleigh
Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence. -- Leonard Mlodinow
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections. -- Gloria Estefan
American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. -- Simon Pegg
Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art. -- Grant Achatz
I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt. -- Anna Deavere Smith
My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage. -- Steven Wright
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else. -- Carlisle Floyd
I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it. -- Trey Songz
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive. -- Adolph Gottlieb
I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face. -- Jessica Chastain
At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism. -- Virginia Postrel
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. -- Kenneth R. Miller
Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being. -- Criss Jami
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness. -- Faith Evans
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive. -- Larry Wall
The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place. -- Michael Leunig
I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us. -- Russell Smith
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. -- William Henry Ashley
If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really hate plastic surgery when it's just for aesthetics and anti-ageing. I think ageing is beautiful and expressive and characterful. -- Miranda Hart
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers. -- Greg Iles
The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive. -- Zack Snyder
There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved. -- Sam Abell
Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out. -- Norman Rockwell
I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it. -- Chantal Kreviazuk
The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. -- Beth Gibbons
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive. -- Jaron Lanier
The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are. -- Adam Lambert
My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that I really want to say in Mende. For example, in Mende, you wouldn't say 'night came suddenly'; you would say 'the sky rolled over and changed its sides.' -- Ishmael Beah
My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities. -- John Cassavetes
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible. -- Robert Henri
My face is not that expressive! -- Cate Tiernan
Genius is always more suggestive than expressive. -- Abel Stevens
Air and manners are more expressive than words. -- Samuel Richardson
Nothing at times is more expressive than silence. -- George Eliot
Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art -- Grant Achatz
Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive. -- Steve Inskeep
Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding. -- Natsuki Takaya
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. -- Tanith Lee
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison. -- Gaston Bachelard
C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string. -- Jamie Zawinski
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema. -- Sergei Eisenstein
Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography. -- Herb Lubalin
Some people are more expressive in worship. Some people more subtle and it's all good -- Tim Hawkins
I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions. -- Tim Heidecker
Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock. -- Andy Greenwald
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. -- Peter Ackroyd
Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power. -- Gustave Courbet
I'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up. -- Adrian Peterson
I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it. -- John Eaton
My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time. -- Phoebe Philo
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. -- Kate Walsh
The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie. -- Alexander Herzen
Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence. -- Walter J. Phillips
Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look. -- Sharon Salzberg
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product. -- Eugene Delacroix
The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act. -- Martha Graham
The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment. -- Edouard Vuillard
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive. -- Ansel Adams
There are people that thinks that type should be expressive. They have a different point of view from mine. -- Massimo Vignelli
You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening. -- Philip Treacy
I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music. -- Kris Allen
Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private. -- John Nettles
English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural. -- Ha Jin
What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression. -- Camille Saint-Saens
If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself. -- Gary Moore
A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs. -- Clifford Stoll
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows. -- Julia Cameron
Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way. -- Bethany Cosentino
Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail. -- Susan Sontag
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. -- King Krule
The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. -- Douglas Crockford
I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is. -- Sakyong Mipham
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development -- David Crystal
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice. -- Henri Matisse
The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem. -- Hedley Beare
I encourage people to play around, mix proportions, textures, seasons and prints, and to find what makes them feel their most comfortable and expressive. -- Thakoon Panichgul
Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience. -- Fernando Perez
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Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us? -- Joel Edgerton
[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive. -- Juliette Lewis
When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings. -- Candace Pert
Strive for excellence, rather than perfection, and the audience may so enjoy your beautiful, expressive tone that they will readily forgive a few stray notes. -- Ruth Bonetti
I think the good thing about my face is it has always been expressive. With Botox that goes - not what you want as an actress. -- Jane Seymour
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind. -- Joseph Addison
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart. -- Alfred de Vigny
While the expressive possibilities of Neoplasticism are limited to two dimensions (the plane), Elementarism realizes the possibility of plasticism in four dimensions, in the field of time-space. -- Theo van Doesburg
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. -- John Ruskin
In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be. -- Lia Ices
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part. -- Henri Matisse
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive. -- Henri Matisse
CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people. -- John Harrison
I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive. -- Lillian Gish
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction. -- Rachel Cusk
His eyes, I'd long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for a public setting. -- Richelle Mead
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul. -- Christopher Morley
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity. -- Clay Shirky
Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing. -- Charli XCX
The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally. -- Sidney Poitier
Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art. -- Allen Ginsberg
Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem. -- Edward Sapir
Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world. -- Virginia Woolf
If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind. -- Amy Carlson

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