Expression Quotes

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One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat]… — Claude Monet
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
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as we now give… — Lewis Mumford
I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science Â… it is by this daily striving… — Marie Curie
But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of… — Evelyn Underhill
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it… — Remy de Gourmont
I shall have more to say when I am dead. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell. — Mel Brooks
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as… — Hannah Arendt
Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power… — Vilfredo Pareto
The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. — Albert Pinkham Ryder
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... forever growing... can be one… — Leopold Stokowski
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. — Charles Ives
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
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation… — Louis Nizer
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… — Robert Motherwell
Self-education only produces expressions of self. — Robert Henri
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter. — 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
Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea. — Robert Henri

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