External Expression Quotes

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

If there's garbage in one's head, that's what will come out.

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

Whatever you are inside, the good and bad will manifest in the outside world. It will come out in some way. It will come out in your work. It will come out in words. It will come out.

I don't really create things externally; I'm not that kind of actor.

In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with desire, which may be said to really live in the fuller meaning of the term and not merely vegetate - in all such creatures, the currents of the desire body flow outward from the liver.

Fighters can say whatever, but what they are feeling inside, it's totally different.

It's the inner that produces the outer.

What happens inside always appears outside.