Artistic expression

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If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

Hear Me Talkin' to Ya

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Artistic expression Music

Speaker

Charlie Parker

Source

Hear Me Talkin' to Ya

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Parker, Charlie. Quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Written by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. Rinehart & Company, 1955.

I 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

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Artistic expression Music

Author

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1777 1770s 18th century

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Original Citation

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Letter to Leopold Mozart. 8 Nov. 1777.

Current Citation

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. The Letters of Mozart and His Family, edited by Emily Anderson. Springer, 2016.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Artistic expression Art

Author

Henry Ward Beecher

Source

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

Medium

Sermon

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Beecher, Henry Ward. Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887.

Every 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)

The Way of All Flesh

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Artistic expression

Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Source

The Way of All Flesh

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 14.

Current Citation

Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 14.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

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Topic

Self-discovery Self-expression Artistic expression Painting Art

Speaker

Jackson Pollock

Source

Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

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Citation

Pollock, Jackson. Interviewed by Selden Rodman. c. 1956.

I don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need.

Jim Dine

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Artistic expression Self-expression Vocation Painting Art

Speaker

Jim Dine

Source

Artnet

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Dine, Jim. "Lone Wolf: An Interview with Jim Dine." Interviewed by Ilka Scobie. Artnet, 28 June 2010.

The blue period was not a question of color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that.

Pablo Picasso

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Artistic expression Self-expression Art

Speaker

Pablo Picasso

Source

Vogue

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Picasso, Pablo. "Picasso." Interviewed by Alexander Liberman. Vogue, 1 Nov. 1956.