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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every… — Henri Matisse
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in… — Henri Matisse
The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness. — Henri Matisse
Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental… — Claes Oldenburg
It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This… — Shunryu Suzuki
It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to… — Frederick Salomon Perls
To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but… — Vincent Van Gogh
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. — Vincent Van Gogh
While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression… — Lewis Mumford
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative… — Wendell Phillips
I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence… — Tony Blair
The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. — Albert Pinkham Ryder
I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully. — Meher Baba
Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner… — Meher Baba
I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her;… — Joshua Reynolds
We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely? — Robert Motherwell
The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express. — Robert Henri
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big… — Robert Henri
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible. — Paul Cezanne
One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction. — Paul Cezanne
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for… — Eugene Delacroix
Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my… — Emily Carr
What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or… — Emily Carr

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