Expression Quotes

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I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you… — Bat for Lashes
There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression. — Wassily Kandinsky
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its… — Piet Mondrian
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality. — Piet Mondrian
Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that… — Piet Mondrian
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the… — Mark Rothko
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish… — Mark Rothko
The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but â€˜[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression — Amos Bronson Alcott
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to… — George Henry Lewes
In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive… — Tariq Ramadan
I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression… — George Soros
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is… — John Paul Stevens
All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the… — Ernest Holmes
Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature. — Dale Carnegie
I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I… — Thelonious Monk
The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these… — Antonio Gramsci
Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold… — Mahatma Gandhi
On Creating â€” What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures. — Emile M. Cioran
The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'. — Julius Nyerere

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