Quotes About Expression

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.