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“I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.”

Thinking Littles Art Wanted Strong Ability Break Study Pieces Serious Expression Singing Art Is Down And Details Broke Visuals Here And There Expressive Visual Art Crossover

Author:Laura Joplin

“In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.”

Way Mean Simple Painting Expression Wine Primitive Vocabulary Expressive

Author:Robert Motherwell

“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

“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

“Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.”

Thinking Way Helping Problem Used Known Painting Expression Solutions Negative Intention Surface Spokes Expressive Neutrality

Author:Jasper Johns

“What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.”

Giving Two Form Expression Composer Expressive

Author:Camille Saint-Saens

“To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.”

“Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.”

Humans Body Hands Beautiful Language Movement Expression Shapes Visuals Human Body Expressive Facial Facial Expression Body Movement

Book:Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

Source: Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

“Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Source: William Shakespeare

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive that gives you a lot of room for unique and individual expression. Whatever you're interested in can become something you kind of own in your group of skater friends.”

Thinking Giving Kind Individual Rooms Groups Expression Unique Artistic Psychologist Skating Expressive Skater Individual Expression

Author:James Mercer