While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.
Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.
With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them.
Action expresses priorities.
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.
Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.
There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
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