Quotes About Expression

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The universe corresponds to the nature of your song.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

All gardening is landscape painting.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.