Art Expression Quotes

• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Fools Day, Finding Yourself

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Expression, Personality

  Hans Hofmann (1980). “Hans Hofmann, 1880-1966: A Special Exhibition of Major Paintings to Mark the Centennial of the Artist's Birth : December 13-January 13, 1981, André Emmerich Gallery, New York”

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• If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Umpires, Roots

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.

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• With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Expression, Vivid

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• No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Business, Acting

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.755, GENERAL PRESS

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• Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Travel, Adventure

  "Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard" by W. Somerset Maugham, (p. 310), 1930.

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

  Dario Fo

  Expression, Add, Artistic

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• It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

  Berthe Morisot

  Art, Real, Taken

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Men, Expression

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• It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

  Agnes Martin

  Happiness, Art, Thinking

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• 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

  Art, Healing, Our World

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• Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

  Luiz Bolognesi

  Art, Expression, Defense

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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