Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about
His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.
I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.
One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.
You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.
. . . his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.
The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.
A photographer who wants to see. . . . must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance you put between yourself and your home. If you do not see what is all around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?. . . . Good seeing doesn't ensure good photographs, but good photographic expression is impossible without it.
My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead. " Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.
I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
. . . and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.