#expression

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#cannot #compromise #devise #every #expression

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#blue #blue jeans #clothes #expression #had

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. ↗

— Jared Leto

#around #artists #celebrated #child #clear

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? ↗

— C. Day Lewis

#earth #expresses #good #however #just

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#been #expressionist #five #forget #how

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#capitalist #class #class struggle #expression #history

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#especially #expression #give #inspiration #singing

David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style. ↗

— Lance Loud

#boy #boy george #contained #created #david

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#expression #individual #own #singing #songs

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves. ↗