Quotes about Expression
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
— Henri Matisse
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. It is through it that I best succeed in expressing the almost religious feeling I have towards life.
— Henri Matisse
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul
— Henri Matisse
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.
— Henri Matisse
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
— Henri Matisse
Creativity takes courage
— Henri Matisse
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
— Henry David Thoreau
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
— Henry David Thoreau
Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the germs of disease, and bring new elements of health.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
— Henry Ward Beecher