Quotes About Expression

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.

Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.