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Quotes About Expression

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
~ Lance Reddick
One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.
~ Laurence Graff
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
~ Lawrence Durrell
While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.
~ Lawrence Lessig
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
~ Lin Yutang
I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."
~ Unknown
What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
~ M.I.A.
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
~ Margaret Atwood
For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.
~ Marilyn Manson
Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.
~ Marilyn Manson
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
~ Marina Abramovic
Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.
~ Martin Firrell
Photography is Art and Art is Photography.
~ Martin Parr
A nation's art is the expression of its soul.
~ Marvin Bell
Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.
~ Unknown
Art is a hot soup in this cold world!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.
~ Michael Moore
All art is about appealing to emotion.
~ Michael Moore
Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions.
~ Unknown
I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.
~ Michelle Stuart
I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.
~ Unknown