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“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 in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.”

Mind Mean Ideas Feelings Objects Expression Pure Conscious Accepted Meaningless Worthless Conscious Mind

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.”

Self Painting Expression Self Expression

Author:Mark Rothko

“We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.”

Ifs Expression Excess Freedom Of Expression Caricatures Censure

Author: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 art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.”

Giving Art Ideas Whole School Form Successful Heard Expression Foundation Works Of Art Select Obscurity Languish

Author: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 expression.”

Writing Self Childhood Expression Great Love Self Expression Music Love New Experiences

Author: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 is why for me there can be another's gaze.”

Thinking World Use Vision Seeing Expression Visible Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.”

Silence Enemy Expression Ought Speech Painter Mute

Author: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.”

Light Hell Expression Despair Heavy Thank God Desperation Blackness

Book:Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

“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 something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.”

I Can Earth Hours Grace Planets Expression Quiet Senses Witness Loud Delicate Our Planet Manifold

Book:Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

“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 real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life.”

World Real Whole Character Beautiful Law Choices Speak Force Expression Materials Capacity Rhythm Real World Cosmic Delicate Brutal Life Choices

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.”

Form Painting Expression Substance Form And Substance

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: 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 with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.”

Trying Mean Achieve Expression Regard Impact Hardest Clarity Sensations Plastic Maximum Aggressiveness

Author:Joan Miro

“You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.”

Firsts Natural Expression Models Relax

Author:Norman Rockwell

“The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.”

Expression Superiors Conception

Author: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 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

“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 and repose.”

Energy Differences Lines Movement Expression Graphic Repose Vertical Horizontal Deviate

Author: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 soft wood, with hard annulations, such as fir, prints very dearly.”

Hard Form Possibility Expression Regard Woods Impression Print Grain Occasional Texture Visibility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.”

Work Creativity Expression Slavery Duplicate

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Understate and over-prove.”

Expression Prove

Author: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' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.”

Should Art Stories Beautiful Form Interest Fields Expression Paint Abstract Colour Works Of Art Illustration Expressive

Author: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 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

“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 this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.”

Thinking World Reality Form Fantasy Effects Painting Expression Habit Painter Unprecedented

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.”

Art Ideas Play Expression Asking Wrestler Charades

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.”

People Heart Art Age Felt Race Environment Effects Strange Expression Future Lonely New Age Unfolding Brooding Fostering Place And Time

Author:Lawren Harris

“Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!”

Way Feels Mean Art Expression Really Mean

Author:Kay WalkingStick

“Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.”

People Men Needs Spiritual Expression Wall Eras Caves Rudeness Prehistoric Bison Prehistoric Man

Author:Fernando Botero

“There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.”

Men Life Heart Children Feelings Form Spirit Social Voice Heard Childhood Expression Spring Laughter Philosopher Uplifting Analysis Significance Egotism Merry

Author:William Osler

“The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.”

Law Science Certain Expression Quantum Hypothesis Equations Causality

Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.”

“The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.”

Self Expression Self Love Simplicity Vanity Offensive Frankness

Book:Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804

Source: Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804

“Action expresses priorities.”

Love Inspiration Action Happiness Social Family Expression Politician Activity India Activism Priorities Indian Doings

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.”

Men Feels Should Trying Mind Looks Enough Character Stories Interesting Audience Pieces Design Expression Personality Development Reactions Phases

Author:Walt Disney

“A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”

Inspirational Moments Principles Practice Expression Limits Perfection Compromise Imperfect Practise Perfection And Imperfection

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people; before you have a government you must have the people. Without the people there can be no government. The government must be, therefore, an expression of the will of the people.”

People Government Purpose Expression Authority Executives Infallible

Book:Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey

Source: Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey

“There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.”

People Needs Should Dies One Thing Expression Sympathy Before I Die

Author:Golda Meir

“Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.”

Knows Two Know How Expression Parts Of Life

Author:Orson Welles

“We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.”

Soul Expression Flow Fountain One Love Chinks

Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.”

Should Matter Law Nature Study Expression Communication Source Travel Ocean Unions Streams Wilderness Shore Rays Crossings Magnetic Dealings Aurora

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for.”

Thinking Way Needs Helping Can Do Expression Paid Newspapers New Ways Editorials Oversight

Author:Steve Jobs

“I've had every haircut you could possibly imagine: mullet, tail, dreadlocks, afro, crew cut. It's always been an expression of who I am.”

Cutting Imagine Expression Who I Am Tails Crew Haircuts Afros Dreadlocks Mullets New Haircut

Author:Marc Forgione

“Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.”

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.”

People Way Want Feels Humans Motivational Form Suffering Company Hell Expression Communication Misery Likes Feel Better Human Society All Alone

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“A real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm... I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness.”

Should Believe Looks Real Strong I Believe Expression Weakness Calm Fighter Mma Aggression

Author:Fedor Emelianenko

“When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.”

Writing Motivational Expression Letters Down And Distress Harsh Venting

Author:Donald T. Phillips

“A noble truth is a sacred creed.”

Expression Truth Is Sacred Noble Creeds

Author:Bob Dylan

“Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you.”

Enough Expression Mountain Lows Rivers Wide Valleys

Author:Marvin Gaye

“All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.”

Girl Walks Boys Streets Expression Corners Dressed Up Boogie

Author:Van Morrison

“Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.”

Expression Baby Sight Alright Uptight

Author:Stevie Wonder