#expression

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#inadequacy-of-words #painting #power-of-words #self-expression #art

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them. ↗

— Christian Dior

#creation #expression #natural #revolution #sincerity

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#chasm #expression #inspirational #vision #art

Art is the expression of the invisible by means of the visible. ↗

— Fromentin

#expression #art

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#freedom #freedom-of-expression #art

I have this rage that I can't explain. It's sad. ↗

— Peter Davis

#expression #writers #art

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#art #artistic-expression #artists #art

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#self-expression #beauty

When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#writing #experience

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. ↗

— John Coltrane

#humanity #music #soul #faith