There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to first of all the environment in which it's being staged then the audience the nature of the audience the quality of the audience.
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest it is beautiful. If it is not honest it is obvious.
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.
For whatever reason not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And believe me it is a gift.
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
Love cannot express the idea of music while music may give an idea of love.
Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And um I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression whether it was through music or acting or dancing or painting or writing.
When people in stadiums do the Wave it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion pass time and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
Nevertheless the passions whether violent or not should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music even in situations of the greatest horror should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it and thereby always remain music.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from everyone loves music.
I think more than writers the major influences on me have been European movies jazz and Abstract Expressionism.
My host at Richmond yesterday morning could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son a clever little boy to show me the road leading to Windsor.
Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom a wife and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage between man and woman male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that I think express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.