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Philistinism!We have not the expression in English. Perhapswehavenottheword because wehavesomuch of the thing.
Hisexpressionmayoftenbe called baldbut it isbaldas 34 the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men not having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
Thereisnothing moreunbecoming a manofquality than to laugh;Jesu,'tissuchavulgarexpressionofthepassion!
He had no nose, properly speaking, but a large beak of preposterous widthlessness, which gave his whole face the expression of falling gravely downstairs, and quite obliterated the unimportant chin.
Bubber was the first man I heard use the expression,'it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.' Everything, and I repeat, everything had to swing.
Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.
Les oeuvres les plus belles sont celles o u' il y a le moins de matie' re; plus l'expression se rapproche de la pense e, plus le mot colle dessus et dispara|"t, plus c'est beau. Je crois que l'avenir de l'art est dans ces voies. The most beautiful works are those that have the least content; the closer the expression is to the thought, the more indistinguishable the word from the content, the more beautiful is the work. I believe that the future of art lies in this direction.
I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain.We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now fora long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and thethings that were glorious had no gloryand the sacrifices were like the stock-yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
We should never make a god out of form.We should struggle for form onlyas long as it serves as a means of expression for the inner sound.
She's the sort of woman who lives for othersyou can always tell the others by their hunted expression.
Assume a particular state of development in the productive facilities of man and you will get a particular form of commerce and consumption. Assume particular stages of development in production, commerce and consumption and you will have a corresponding social constitution, a corresponding organisation of the family, of orders or of classes, in a word, a corresponding civil society. Assume a particular civil societyand you will get particular political conditions which are only the official expression of civil society.
Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing ina humanface or manifested by violent movement.The entirearrangement of my picture isexpressive: theplace occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
Italy is a geographical expression.
The concentration camp isthefinal expressionof human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
I have always looked upon decayas being just as wonderful an expression of life as growth.
All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to'the will of the people'the expression which the few desire.
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to powerbut also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
Expression is the dress of thought.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
In them one can see the spontaneousand often aestheticexpressionof a peoplereflected, not ina gilt- framed drawing room mirror, but in an honest glass held up to the face of a nation.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Ihold a beast, anangel and a madmanwithinme, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self expression.
She developed a persistent troubled frown which gave her the expression of someone who is trying to repair a watch with his gloves on.
It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.
The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be waryabout.
I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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