In them one can see the spontaneousöand often aestheticöexpressionof a peoplereflected, not ina gilt- framed drawing room mirror, but in an honest glass held up to the face of a nation.

-Rockefeller,Winthrop
  On an exhibition of American folk art at the US Embassy, London. In news summaries, 31 Jan.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

-Shaw, George Bernard
Back to Methuselah.

A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

-Shaw, George Bernard
Of dancing. Quoted in the New Statesman, 23 Mar1962.

Ihold a beast, anangel and a madmanwithinme, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self expression.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Letter to HenryTreece.

She developed a persistent troubled frown which gave her the expression of someone who is trying to repair a watch with his gloves on.

-Thurber,James Grover
  The Beast In Me and OtherAnimals,'Look Homeward, Jeannie'.

It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

-Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein
  My Life, p.501.

The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be waryabout.

-Waterhouse, Keith Spencer
  In the Observer Magazine, 30 Dec.

I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Decline and Fall, pt.3, ch.1.