Details Quote by Henri Matisse

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

— Angel Haze

Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture…

— Henri Matisse

It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system…

— Mervyn Levy

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first…

— Henri Matisse

I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from…

— Lucian Freud

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

— Franz Kline

All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of the situation…

— Norbert Lynton

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

— Maurice Ravel

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

“Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor, you are…

— Tommy Tran

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

— Eli Broad