Granted that the designer knows the tools of his trade,-grasps the Expressional value of every element with which he has to deal, from the cut of a type to the surface of a binder's cloth,-his task, as we said, is first to know the soul of the book intrusted to him for embodiment; it is next to decide upon its most characteristic quality, or the sum of its qualities; and, lastly, it is so to use his physical elements as to give to the completed book an expression that shall be the outward manifestation of its indwelling spirit.
"The Booklover and His Books"
Harry Lyman Koopman
Offering the only avenue for the Expressional activities of the race, the church answered many a social purpose for which this institution among other groups differently circumstanced had never before been required to serve.
"The History of the Negro Church"
Carter Godwin Woodson
Unquestionably, however, the elder poet showed a consummate and continuous mastery of his art altogether beyond the intermittent Expressional power of Browning in his most rhythmic emotion at any time of his life.
"Life of Robert Browning"
William Sharp