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Artistic expression7 quotes
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. — Charlie Parker · 1955I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1777Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher · 1887Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler (novelist) · 1902Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson PollockI don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need. — Jim Dine · 2010All 7 quotes →Art4 quotes
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher · 1887Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson PollockI don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need. — Jim Dine · 2010The blue period was not a question of color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that. — Pablo Picasso · 1956Self-expression3 quotes
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson PollockI don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need. — Jim Dine · 2010The blue period was not a question of color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that. — Pablo Picasso · 1956Music2 quotes
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. — Charlie Parker · 1955I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1777Painting2 quotes
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson PollockI don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need. — Jim Dine · 2010Self-discovery1 quote
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson PollockVocation1 quote
I don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need. — Jim Dine · 2010