Expression Quotes

Life is an attitude. Art is an expression of life. Ideally, art as well as life should be the greatest expression possible from us as individuals.
Bobbie Kilpatrick

People seem to worry about self-expression that is somehow too personal... Art has always been personal.
Bonnie Sherr Klein

Any work of art can be looked at as a series of decisions made about problems that you give yourself about how to express a certain idea.
John Leon

Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
Berthe Morisot

In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.
Robert Motherwell

The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.
Walter J. Phillips

Conversation, which is friendship\'s mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

As an artist you may spend years searching for expression. When you find the medium you truly love, expression finds you.
Cindy Testerink

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
Brenda Ueland

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.
Georges Vantongerloo

Don\'t be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!
Kay WalkingStick

All art is the expression of one and the same thing - the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
Reginald Howard Wilenski

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression.
Josef Albers

When an artist is more concerned with what is said than how it is said there is no art.

The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile.
Jerome Frank

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions to assign a linguistic function to color.
Guido Molinari







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