Expression Quote by Charles Ives Download Open image “Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.” — Charles Ives ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expression Inspirational Matter Term
We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others. — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning. — William Safire Copy Share Image
We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken. — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. — David Mermin Copy Share Image
The term 'great,' that's something I have a great deal of respect for. — Mike Tomlin Copy Share Image
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people. — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Instead of asking a girl how she feels, try looking through her recently listened to songs. The lyrics are the answer to all your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
