Expression Quotes

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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and… — Andrew Wyeth
I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal. — Marcel Duchamp
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible. — Paul Cezanne
One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above… — Paul Cezanne
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth. — Paul Cezanne
The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is… — Thorstein Veblen
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed… — Thorstein Veblen
I value those artists who embody the expression of their life. — Wassily Kandinsky
I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the… — Sean William Scott
In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones. — Fujiwara no Teika
Find a way to express what moves you. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the… — Elisabeth Shue
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology,… — Denis Donoghue
Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring… — Anish Kapoor
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all… — Jacques Lipchitz
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play… — Charles Mingus
For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object… — Kazimir Malevich
I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self. — Mark Rothko
You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression. — Norman Rockwell

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