Quotes about Expression
It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.
— Jason Fried
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
— Michelangelo
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
— Teresa of Avila
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.
— Jack Canfield
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
— Oscar Wilde
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.
— Clay Aiken
The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.
— Elbert Hubbard
Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
— Erica Jong
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
— GK Chesterton