Pastoral Resources

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

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

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?