Quotes About Expression

When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.

Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.

Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.