#expression

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books. ↗

— Ann Rule

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. ↗

— Lord Hailsham

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. ↗

— James Baldwin

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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible. ↗

— Robert Henri

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

— Fromentin

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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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