Expression Quotes

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Beware of clichÃ©s. Not just the ÂclichÃ©s that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichÃ©s of response as well as expression. There are… — Geoff Dyer
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of… — Thomas Jefferson
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description… — Hyman Bass
We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been… — Margaret Sanger
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. — Alberto Korda
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level. — Scott Henderson
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around… — Ansel Adams
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon… — Aaron Siskind
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or… — Sam Abell
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them… — Robert Adams
The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here… — Paul Strand
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and… — Ansel Adams
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is… — Beaumont Newhall
There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours… — Sadakichi Hartmann
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in… — Alexey Brodovitch

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