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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. -- Hans Hofmann
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. -- Goldwin Smith
Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. -- Julianne Moore
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs. -- Donnie Yen
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. -- Walt Whitman
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. -- Gunter Grass
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. -- Vladimir Kramnik
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. -- Edith Hamilton
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability. -- Shinichi Suzuki
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. -- Arthur Erickson
Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious. -- Piet Mondrian
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. -- Publilius Syrus
I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear. -- Erin Heatherton
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. -- Edward Hopper
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. -- Peter M. Brant
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. -- Jacob Bronowski
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. -- Emmet Fox
Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression. -- Kim Gordon
Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible. -- George Edward Woodberry
Art is the expression of an enormous preference. -- Wyndham Lewis
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. -- Henry A. Kissinger
A nation's art is the expression of its soul. -- Marvin Bell
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? -- Anne Frank
Art is the highest expression of the human spirit. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The goal of art was the vital expression of self. -- Alfred Stieglitz
Art is the expression of the immortal part of man. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Art is the expression of the artistÂ´s overflowing soul. -- Hans Hofmann
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. -- Marc Chagall
Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality. -- Henry Moore
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper. -- Gunter Grass
Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art. -- Wes Fesler
It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression. -- Elizabeth I
For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion. -- Rosanne Cash
Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way. -- Albert Einstein
There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual. -- Swizz Beatz
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons. -- Pauline Kael
Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul. -- Bruce Lee
Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere. -- Rufino Tamayo
Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul. -- Howard Pyle
The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art. -- Felix de Weldon
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression. -- Ai Weiwei
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art. -- Bennie Wallace
Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words. -- Robert Henri
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression. -- Don DeLillo
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. -- John Ruskin
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures. -- Kim Cattrall
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression. -- Edward de Bono
Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about -- Julianne Moore
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art. -- Bill Watterson
Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it. -- Gerard Way
Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other. -- Ken Danby
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. -- Ray Kurzweil
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. -- Ansel Adams
Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art. -- Unarine Ramaru
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
Art is sacred.Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic. -- Kurt Cobain
Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art. -- Marilyn Manson
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill. -- Sara Genn
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. -- Jackson Pollock
Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art. -- Chael Sonnen
Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression. -- Luiz Bolognesi
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that. -- Shania Twain
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression. -- Oscar Wilde
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability -- Shinichi Suzuki
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. -- Andre Gide
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. -- Paul Klee
Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression. -- Jeff Smith
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality. -- John Dewey
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men. -- John Ruskin
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth." -- Publilius Syrus
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. -- Publilius Syrus
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world. -- Anna Halprin
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art. -- Semir Zeki
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. -- Alvin Langdon Coburn
Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium. -- Piet Mondrian
Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience. -- Rufino Tamayo
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax. -- Denis Donoghue
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'. -- Norman Lindsay
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. -- Leonard Baskin
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it. -- John Ruskin
It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure. -- George Henry Lewes
All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world. -- Ansel Adams
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit. -- David Mamet
If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent. -- John Ridley
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him. -- Jacob Epstein
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. -- Arthur Erickson
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling. -- John F. Carlson
Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art. -- Allen Ginsberg

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