Quotes About Expression

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.

Art is stronger than Nature

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.

Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.