#expression

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. ↗

— Edgard Varese

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Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen. ↗

— Herb Ritts

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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

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