Quotes About Expression

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

I believe that the Source from which we come is alive in us as our breath, and as we speak and sing and breathe, we release the beauty of the Creator into the world.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.

In art economy is always beauty.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.? You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold?, comes at long last over everyone.

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.