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Quotes About Expression

And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.
~ Unknown
I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.
~ Unknown
Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?
~ Jacob Epstein
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
~ Jacques Barzun
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.
~ Jacques Barzun
I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
~ James Gleick
Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.
~ James Kelman
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
~ James Mangold
I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
~ James Mercer
We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.
~ James Patterson
Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.
~ James Thurber
Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.
~ Jane Lynch
I believe only in art and failure.
~ Jane Rule
Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.
~ Jane Seymour
Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
~ Jasper Fforde
Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.
~ Jay Baruchel
Pain is not a conduit to art or joy
~ Jay Maisel
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!
~ Jean Dubuffet
Realism and art cannot live together.
~ Jeanette Lee
Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There is no best anything in art.
~ Jeff Daniels
I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
~ Jeff Koons