#expression

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#baroque #contemporary #epochs #expressions #findings

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.' ↗

— Dick Gregory

#boy #deal #expressions #i #insulting

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic. ↗

— John Hall

#always #because #call #cheap #contempt

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #caresses #die #expressions #leaves

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#education #effects #expression #get #hope

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#failure #forms #lands #new #often

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#control #dance #expression #felt #free

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#become #contingent #emotion #every #expression

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#carrier #expression #help #idea #inherent

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #every #expression #fundamentally #personality