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Artistic Expression Quotes (page 2)

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies. Thomas Merton
If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life. Witold Gombrowicz
I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination. Marcel Duchamp
Alanis Morissette quote: "I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively..."
I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed. Alanis Morissette
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. Juan Goytisolo
I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances. Kurt Sutter
Laura Dern quote: "What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do..."
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? Laura Dern
Maurice Denis quote: "All artists are now free to express their own personality."
All artists are now free to express their own personality. Maurice Denis
To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way. Mos Def
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist. John McGahern
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock quote: "The modern artist is working with space and time, and..."
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. Jackson Pollock
Terrence Howard quote: "Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with..."
Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression. Terrence Howard
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. Edward Hopper
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Every production of an artist should be the expression of an..."
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. W. Somerset Maugham

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