Top 347 Expressive Quotes & Sayings

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Yes, I'm very expressive with my painting.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too much and forcing the instrument. It is very easy to be overly expressive on the recorder, and finding the balance is quite difficult.

Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.

My face is not that expressive!

There are people that thinks that type should be expressive. They have a different point of view from mine.

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

I think that I did inherit a very expressive face from my mother and my grandmother.

I'm expressive and animated.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

I like to communicate, I'm very expressive with my players.

I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

I started drawing a mouse because it was my father's nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive.

I am very expressive and hyperactive.

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

I'm an expressive person.

Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience

In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.

I'll be 40 this year but honestly would not consider surgery; all my beauty icons are women with expressive faces. Isabelle Huppert ages so beautifully and gracefully, as have Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. I am struck by their expressive beauty.

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

I'm not physically a super expressive person.

English is a very expressive language.

I am reasonably nice-looking and have quite an expressive face, which is good for comedy.

I am expressive but secretive about my emotions.

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening.

I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.

I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it.

If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

Now that the NBA has removed restrictions on the color ways we can wear on court, I can be as expressive as I want.

At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.

I normally speak by moving my hands, and I'm very expressive with my face - something Cuban, I guess.

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive word play, there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

I'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up.

I'm very forthcoming, I'm really expressive.

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

The best part about an actor is that they should firstly be receptive and secondly be expressive.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of the situation in which he works - but some art is intended to move us through visual gestures that transmit, and perhaps give release to, emotions and emotionally charged messages. Such art is expressionist.

I am more expressive when I dance.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

Many of the elements associated with storybook mythology and gothic aesthetics are actually not expressive.