The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.
An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.
There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.
Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.
Freedom of expression has a responsibility by those people who espouse it in the West, in particular non-Muslims.
I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.
Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.
A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.
I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama. There's a lot of bullshit drama that leaves you totally cold. And there's a lot of wasted comedy time too. But when you get something honest, it doesn't matter what label you give it.
There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They always had exaggerated canine teeth and a certain sort of expression. That led to speculation about whether at an earlier stage in the human experience we were hunted by some sort of carnivore.
Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.
It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from the tedium and fatigue of purely mechanical toil, for by this means he gains leisure for the thought necessary to working out his designs, and for the finer touches that the hand alone can give. So long as he remains master of his machinery it will serve him well, and his power of artistic expression will be freed rather than stifled by turning over to it work it is meant to do.
Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.