Expression Quotes

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We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure. — Nicolas Sarkozy
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of… — Rupert Sheldrake
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self… — Edgar Winter
I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. — Ben Okri
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. — Yann Martel
I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is… — Yann Martel
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the… — Asger Jorn
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. — Asger Jorn
As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin… — Joan Miro
The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression. — Walter J. Phillips
Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not… — Walter J. Phillips
A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement… — Walter J. Phillips
The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A… — Walter J. Phillips
Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate. — Joan D. Chittister
Understate and over-prove. — Frank Bettger
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story'… — John F. Carlson
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth… — Michael Kimmelman
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in… — Pierre Alechinsky
Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades. — Walter Darby Bannard

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