Quotes about Expression
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?
— CS Lewis
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
— Cicero
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
— Charles Dickens
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
— Walt Disney
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.
— Hillary Clinton
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.
— John F. Kennedy
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
— Marcus Aurelius
Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.
— Kerry Washington
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
— Marina Abramovic
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
— Aldous Huxley