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Quotes About Expression

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
~ Edgar Degas
Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.
~ Alain LeRoy Locke
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.
~ Piet Mondrian
The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
~ Auguste Rodin
I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
~ Aaliyah
Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through.
~ Janelle Monae
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
~ Johannes Brahms
Nothing beautiful can be summarized.
~ Paul Valery
I long ago observed that the real beauty of the sound comes from the generosity of the heart.
~ Unknown
I like creating beauty out of scary things.
~ Grimes
I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.
~ Louis Comfort Tiffany
Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.
~ Torkom Saraydarian
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
~ Dorothea Lange
When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
~ Roy Ayers
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
~ Alberto Korda
Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.
~ Grayson Perry
That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.
~ Kimbra
It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.
~ Jehane Noujaim
My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.
~ Penelope Cruz
Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.
~ Hubert de Givenchy
My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.
~ Riccardo Tisci