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It is so wearisome having to represent things. That is why I refuse to look at abstract art. It is much too suggestive of the style of my thoughts, and I never think about my thoughts. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #representation #thoughts #art

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

#expressionism #max-beckman #painter #art

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

— Charles Dickens

#expression #portrait #serious #art

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#faster #i #leaves #less #lies

Wir sind das Volk!" Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die uns ohnmächtig macht, die uns bindet. In dem Augenblick aber, in dem wir unsere Angst als Angst benennen und Anpassung und Angst als Geschwisterkinder erkennen, sind wir möglicherweise bereit zu erproben: Können wir auch ohne sie leben? In genau diesem Augenblick wachsen uns jene Kräfte zu, die eine ganze Gesellschaft verändern können. ↗

— Joachim Gauck

#civil-rights #courage #democracy #dictatorship #empowerment

If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#creativity #expression #art

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#emotion #essay #expression #poetry #talent

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive. ↗

— Dexter Palmer

#attention-span #future-prediction #storytelling #art

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise. ↗

— Beaumarchais Pierre Augustin Caron De

#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