Best artist & expression Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.”

People Art Beautiful Artist Expression Music Is Artistic Copies Personal Expression

Author:Michael Schenker

“To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.”

Art Artist Streets Century Expression Wall Messages Art Is Freedom Of Expression Occupy Wall Street

Author:Peter M. Brant

“Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.”

May Seems Artist Culture Expression Communication Approach Obvious Layers Realism Unnecessary Misunderstood American Culture Magical Realism Freedom Of Expression Iranian Magic Realism

Author:Shirin Neshat

“Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.”

Thinking World Art Self Artist Consciousness Expression Active Contemporary Works Of Art Ongoing Self Consciousness Nihilist

Author:Leonard Baskin

“The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.”

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Book:An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin

Source: An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin

“The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.”

Should Artist Expression Strive Surface Storm Clouds

Author:Albert Pinkham Ryder

“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 to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.”

Thinking Artist Roles Expression Expressive

Book:Anish Kapoor: exposition du 16 octobre 1998 au 7 février 1999, capcMusée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux

Source: Anish Kapoor: exposition du 16 octobre 1998 au 7 février 1999, capcMusée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux

“I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.”

Artist Values Expression

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“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 concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.”

Artist Language Effects Expression Materials Concerned Mediums Limitation English Language Exaggerated

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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 industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.”

May Made War Ends Artist Culture Growth Freedom Expression Industry Argument Being The Best Paradox Censorship Freedom Of Expression

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.”

Should Art Artist Break Alive Expression Claims Cameras Conventions Worn Freedom Of Expression Worn Out

Author:Alvin Langdon Coburn

“Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.”

“For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.”

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Book:What Price Fame?

Source: What Price Fame?

“Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Doe Might Artist Changed Expression Evolution Variation Vary

Book:Picasso: style and meaning

Source: Picasso: style and meaning

“He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.”

“Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.”

“You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.”

World Enough Artist Grows Realizing Expression Areas Wine Grapes Palate

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.”

Form Artist Individual Expression Linked Groove Lifeless

Book:Mark Tobey, art and belief

Source: Mark Tobey, art and belief

“Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.”

Artist Color Expression Visuals Sensibility Sensitivity Innate Palette

Author:Scott Kahn

“An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.”

Looks Artist Sound Expression

Author:Gerald Brommer

“I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.”

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Author:Norman Rockwell

“The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared by healers, especially the herbal healer who works with plants, which are the pure creative expression of nature and the healing process.”

Eye Artist Process Healing Creative Poet Expression Perspective Pure Musician Harmony Plant Proportion Healer Creative Expression Healing Process

Author:Michael Tierra

“One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.”

“An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.”

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Author:Julia Cameron

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