“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”— Kathy Acker
“Instead of evoking our moods by the means of the subject, we have endowed the work of art with the quality to be emotive in itself.”— Maurice Denis
“There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.”— Alan Perlis
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”— Ansel Adams
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”— Ansel Adams
“The essential thing is to have something to say, and to say it in a way that is your own.”— Amy Marcy Beach
“A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.”— M. H. Abrams
“In the expressive theory, the artist himself becomes the major element generating the artistic product, and the audience is secondary.”— M. H. Abrams
“When you are writing, you're a person who has a certain viewpoint, and you're going to be expressing it, whatever it is.”— Brian Aldiss
“I have come here to seek the self-expression that has been denied me for so long in Russia.”— Svetlana Alliluyeva