It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Henri Matisse

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
Karl Barth

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
Bruce Dickinson

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
Diogenes

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra Pound

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
Corazon Aquino

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Evelyn Waugh

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
Gwendolyn Brooks

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
Twyla Tharp

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

A fever is an expression of inner rage.
Julia Roberts

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
Laurence J. Peter

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
Roman Polanski