It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a… — William James Copy Share Image
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you. — Randy Gage Copy Share Image
Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it… — Piet Mondrian 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
If people cared they'd check in, if they loved you they would show it, if you meant something to them, they wouldn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and,… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused. — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There are people that appreciate the music for its musical value and there are people that will always think that it should… — Bruce Molsky Copy Share Image
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“FV: Hasn't all art, in a way, submitted to words - reduced itself to the literary...admitted its failure through all the catalogues… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism. — Agrippina Vaganova Copy Share Image
“Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet… — Thomas Goodwin Copy Share Image
Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Love; We think about it, sing about it, dream about it, and lose sleep worrying about it. — Anonymous 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
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
When you come across with the ideas that you don't like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image