A Quote by Alvin Langdon Coburn

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Alvin Langdon Coburn
American - Photographer
June 11, 1882 - November 23, 1966

In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.

Erica Jong

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.

Devin Townsend

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

Laurie Anderson

Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.

Nick Flynn

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

Robert Henri

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.

W. S. Merwin

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

Jim Woodring

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

Lukas Foss

Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that through music, through painting, through photography, through acting - this is just another way for me to express myself.

Common

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you can help bring out the song and help the artist express what they want to express. It's never about you stepping out and showing you can play something fancy.

Benmont Tench

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

Claude Debussy

As an artist, you have to express yourself. You just can't stop being an artist.

Corinne Bailey Rae

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Oscar Wilde

Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around him, through religion he tries to harness the force of nature within him.

Wernher von Braun

For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.

George Carlin

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