„What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.“

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— Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions, 2010

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französisch-US-amerikanische Bildhauerin und Malerin 1911 - 2010

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„For me, life would be worthless if there was not modern art and if I did not had the opportunity to express myself in it anyhow, now that I have gradually found the way I can express myself.“

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— Hendrik Werkman Dutch artist 1882 - 1945

version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Hendrik Werkman, in het Nederlands): Voor mij zou het leven waardeloos zijn als er niet de moderne kunst was en als ik niet de mogelijkheid had om me daarin te uiten op welke manier dan ook, nu ik de wijze waarop ik mij kan uiten langzamerhand heb gevonden.
Quote of Werkman in his letter to August Henkels, June 1942, as cited by Doeke Sijens in H. N. Werkman - Leven & Werk - 1882-1945, ed. A. de Vries, J. van der Spek, D. Sijens, M. Jansen; WBooks, Groninger Museum / Stichting Werkman, 2015 (transl: Fons Heijnsbroek), p. 64
1940's

„Living in a system under the Communist ideology, an artist cannot avoid fighting for freedom of expression. You always have to be aware that art is not only a self-expression but a demonstration of human rights and dignity. To express yourself freely, a right as personal as it is, has always been difficult, given the political situation.“

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— Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957

2000-09, Ai Weiwei: A Rebel of Poet Roots, 2008

„It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.“

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— Shunryu Suzuki Japanese Buddhist missionary 1904 - 1971

Express Yourself Fully (page 8)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)

„I don’t have this concept that separates my art from my daily life. They are one thing to me. They are always one. How do you find the way to express yourself and how to communicate with others?“

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— Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957

2010-, Ai Weiwei Does Not Feel Powerful, 2011

„I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.“

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— Burt Lancaster American actor and producer 1913 - 1994

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„The idea that you write to express yourself seems to me revolting. The idea that you write to glorify or to make glorious the art of expressiveness seems to me spot on.“

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— Geoffrey Hill English poet and professor 1932 - 2016

Interview, Telegraph Review, 2013

„To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.“

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— Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973

„You're always the* person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.“

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— Gloria Steinem American feminist and journalist 1934

My Life on The Road
Quelle: My Life on the Road

„They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.“

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— Marsden Hartley American artist 1877 - 1943

Quote from Whitman and Cézanne, in Adventures in the Arts, New York, Boni Liveright 1921; as cited in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 34
1921 - 1930

„Destroying the country is not a solution. These demonstrations are a way to express frustration but it is not the solution. We have to find a way to talk.“

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— Désinord Jean 1967

In Haiti, bishops call on government for urgent action to quell ‘fratricidal warfare’ https://www.churchinneed.org/in-haiti-bishops-call-on-government-for-urgent-action-to-quell-fratricidal-warfare/ (10 October 2019)

„Once again I talked with some painters, but the modern artists [in The Netherlands ] write more than they paint. If you write about art in such a way and you want to paint always with a fixed plan, then you will lose completely the deep, glorious and spontaneous art. You always have to create the new from the very deep, inside.“

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— Jacoba van Heemskerck Dutch painter 1876 - 1923

translation from German, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
(original version, written by Jacoba in German:) Ich habe wieder einige Maler gesprochen, aber die Modernen [in Nederland] schreiben mehr als sie malen. Wenn man so über Kunst schreibt und immer so mit einem festen Plan malen will, dan verliert man ganz und gar die tiefe, herrliche, spontane Kunst. Man muss so ganz tief heraus immer Neuses schaffen.
in a letter to Herwarth Walden, 23 July 1915; the 'Sturm'-Archive, Berlin
very probably Jacoba is refering here to the Dutch Stijl-artists, as Piet Mondrian and Theo v. Doesburg
1910's

„My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.“

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— Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957

2010-, Ai Weiwei: ‘Shame on Me.’, 2011

„As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.“

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— Luciano Pavarotti Italian operatic tenor 1935 - 2007

Pavarotti : My World (1995)

„True human capabilities will not find expression in competition. True human capabilities will find expression only in absolute relaxation. Your mind, your body will work best, will find fullest expression, only when you are joyful and peaceful, and quiet within yourself.“

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— Sadhguru Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian 1957

Quelle: Inspire Your Child Inspire the World: In the Presence of the Master

„Ultimately modelling, acting or dancing is a form of an art. There might be different ways to express these various arts but the basics are always same. We have only nine emotions all over the world and expressing those emotions in any form is going to be similar in one or the other way. there is a rhythm in everything. In modelling we hold the expressions or try to express with no emotions on face but with pride and attitude in acting we go with the flow of the emotions and in dance, we express through our face and body both in rhythm. So this rhythm and emotions are part of your expressions.“

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— Nikita Gokhale Indian Actress, Indian Model 1990

"‘Interview with Nikita Gohkale’" https://vasfotios.wixsite.com/citylights/single-post/2017/12/12/Interview-with-Nikita-Gohkale. City Lights. December 12, 2017.