Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the… — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to… — Jodelle Ferland Copy Share Image
Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and… — Noah Lukeman Copy Share Image
Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Paste Magazine really embodies all that's left of a true independent thought and expression in music journalism in the states right now.… — Shawn Mullins Copy Share Image
What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff -… — Allison Mackie Copy Share Image
I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil.… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence… — Irving Kaufman Copy Share Image
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own… — Kate Brown Copy Share Image
If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to… — Charis Wilson Copy Share Image
This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl… — Al Jaffee Copy Share Image
I have done here on earth that was necessary to be done, no matter what my expression or application and now I… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
“Literature --which is art married to thought, and realization untainted by reality--seems to me the end towards which all human effort would… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant.… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Raphael continued to stare at me, in no hurry to get started. "You know the best way to get rid of a… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except,… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
