#expression

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#self-expression #solitude #communication

What is writing but an expression of my own life? ↗

— Zane Grey

#life #my own #own #writing

Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex. ↗

— Myrna Loy

#hostility #i #like #looks #most

I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage. ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#blend #bottle #expression #fruit #get

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion. ↗

— Angel Haze

#artistic expression #conveying #emotion #expression #lies

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#difference #every #expression #follows #fundamental

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#expression #form #i #limited #people

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#any #because #college #college student #credit

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be. ↗

— Joe Grant

#compared #ease #expressions #fact #got

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ↗

— Ma Jian

#basic #become #beings #expression #freedom