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Artistic Expression Quotes by Elisabeth Shue, Ornette Coleman, Scott Weiland, Michael Hyatt, Igor Youskevitch, Ian Somerhalder and many others.

I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn’t good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.
Elisabeth Shue
It’s just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
Ornette Coleman
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn’t be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
Scott Weiland
The 70’s was a great time for artistic expression in Jamaica and I was in the heart of it, unconsciously soaking it up and paving my future.
Michael Hyatt
Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.
Igor Youskevitch
I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.
Ian Somerhalder
People value makeup differently. Some people see makeup as an artistic expression, some people use makeup as a boost of confidence. I just think makeup is so beautiful and that it really is art. That’s why I do makeup.
Bretman Rock
Bands speak for us in this inevitable way that you can’t get anywhere else because it is this perfect balance of artistic expression and popular culture.
Taylor Goldsmith
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in ‘Horse, Flower, Bird’ I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer
When you tell people you’re a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the ‘Fantastic Four’ or ‘Spider-Man,’ they perk up. It’s a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.
Lucien Bourjeily
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
Gordon Gee
It wasn’t until I was in college that I even realized how much I loved film and started to appreciate acting, this beautiful medium of artistic expression. All I wanted to do was go to college, and I thought I wanted to be a teacher.
Gaby Hoffmann
I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.
Ian Somerhalder
It’s not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.
Marjane Satrapi
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
Patrick Kavanagh
Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.
Jerzy Kosinski
Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
John Frusciante
I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.
Lady Gaga
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
Dario Fo
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
Marc Chagall
At the end of the day, makeup comes off whether you’re a man or a woman; why discriminate against men, when makeup is such an amazing form of artistic expression, just because society says it’s not ‘normal?’
Manny MUA
Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.
Jonathan Sacks
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
Josef Albers
Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.
Ludovico Einaudi
Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today’s masterpiece is tomorrow’s birdcage lining.
Anthony Marra
The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.
Eric Whitacre
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
Salman Rushdie
True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.
Angel Haze
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.
Marina Abramovic
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
Clive James
People use the guise of art, and artistic expression, to do all kinds of hateful things. It’s like Trump and everybody else using the guise of humor to say hateful things, the excuse being, ‘I was just being funny.’
Luvvie Ajayi
I love conceptual art and artistic expression.
Maria Brink
People make films for different reasons. For money. Or, they make them because something in them demands artistic expression. I do it because I enjoy the work.
Woody Allen