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Artistic Expression Quotes

"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague."
Vincent Van Gogh
"Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world."
Paulo Coelho
"Critique by creating."
Michelangelo
"I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale"
Brad Pitt
"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision"
Tilda Swinton
"I found that I had to find a way to protect myself because writing is a very vulnerable position."
Matt Damon
"I’ve never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that’s for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I’m driven by that. Everything I’ve done has felt ver"
Johnny Depp
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
Salvador Dali
"The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers, are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor."
Matthew McConaughey
"There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it Tha"
Matthew McConaughey
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music."
Rumi
"There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not"
Sun Tzu
"And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at."
Denzel Washington
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. "
Pablo Picasso
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. "
Pablo Picasso
"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? "
Pablo Picasso
"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."
Pablo Picasso
"The beauty in being blessed with talent is rising above doubters to create a beautiful moment."
Kobe Bryant