Quotes about Expression

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

Them that believe" refers to Christians, those who have been born again. So if you're a believer in Christ, you should speak in tongues.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture.

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.

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.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul

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.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.