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Quotes About Expression

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
~ John Gabriel Stedman
I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.
~ Anthony Evans
whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.
~ David Sedaris
Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them
~ Lev S. Vygotsky
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
~ Salvador Dali
A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.
~ Mark Rothko
Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.
~ Steve McCurry
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.
~ Mae Jemison
What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.
~ Richard Serra
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.
~ Stefan Sagmeister
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
~ Paul Cezanne
Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.
~ Cy Twombly
I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.
~ Melanie Martinez
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
~ Bob Dylan
Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.
~ Unknown
Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.
~ Julia Alvarez
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
~ Lake Bell
Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
~ Peter Schjeldahl
Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.
~ George Gershwin
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
~ Unknown
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
~ Unknown
I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.
~ Unknown
Everything I experience influences everything I do.
~ Mandy Patinkin
Art is not about understanding, it's about experience.
~ Antony Gormley