The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Laurence Olivier

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
Claude Debussy

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

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
Tom Wolfe

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
Eugene Ionesco

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
Amy Tan

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
Little Richard

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
Earl Warren

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
David Herbert Lawrence

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
David Herbert Lawrence

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
Andrea Dworkin

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna Ciccone

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.
Brandon Boyd

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

What is writing but an expression of my own life?
Zane Grey

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
Bryant H. McGill

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
Bela Lugosi

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
Anthony Trollope