Quotes About Expression

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you're painting.

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear.

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

Isn't every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn't there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.