Quotes of: Personal-expression Keyword

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

John Cusack

The world is a place of endless love with people who express unconditional love, but also a place of hatred by people who express it.

Debasish Mridha

Love is not only the expression of emotion or the expression of sentiment, it is a real thing. It is the absolute reality, which influences all creation.

Debasish Mridha

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.

E'yen A. Gardner

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

Casey Affleck

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Jackson Pollock

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

David Duchovny

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

Joel Edgerton

[Faye is confronted by her boss] Faye: I'm not daydreaming. Manager of 'Midnight Express: Right. You're not daydreaming. You're sleepwalking.

Chungking Express

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

Mo Yan

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

Julie Burchill

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

Adolph Gottlieb

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

Vivienne Westwood

Look at YouTube, how many talented people there are. It's a whole new world of how to express yourself. I don't know how to work that world, but take advantage of it.

Penny Marshall

In fact, poetry has always been like archives that peoples have continually used to serve their feelings, thoughts, national identities and cultures, and it has served as a factor uniting different historical periods. Those who had lost contact with ...

Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief

There's an apt expression: 'If you don't live in your body, where are you going to live?' But many of us don't. We tend to get locked into our heads or our imaginations . . . recognizing the importance of the body is primary. It's who we are, it's wh...

Physical Expression on Stage and Screen: Using the Alexander Technique to Create Unforgettable Performances

I believe that there is something in all of us that is seeking expression, that wants to be heard, that wants to be accepted and respected and loved. We each express ourselves in different ways - through manipulation or domination, through receiving ...

Warning! Proceed With Caution Into the Practice of Law

In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, though each individual idea, expressed separately in words, loses its meaning, is horribly debased wh...

Leo Tolstoy

In bodies, a movement anywhere will send out a wave of response through the structure: the whole body participates, and the better organized it is around the skeletal core, the more clearly it reverberates. A person whose musculature is either slack ...

Expressive Movement: Posture And Action In Daily Life, Sports, And The Performing Arts

Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in her ear. Transferred the secret he and her mother had kept for seventeen years. Waited for the flicker of recognition, the minute shift in expression a...

The Forgotten Garden

There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it is from bits provided by others in the most haphazard way. People can be torn down to the core, "shattered," as the expres...

The Good Son