“A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.”— M. H. Abrams
“Dance is the one thing that I can do that is not going to be judged. It's just me and my body. It is one of the most freeing things.”— Debbie Allen
“In the expressive theory, the artist himself becomes the major element generating the artistic product, and the audience is secondary.”— M. H. Abrams
“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”— Mortimer Adler
“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
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”— Ansel Adams
“One of the great things about being a writer is that you can get things out of your system.”— Beryl Bainbridge
“The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person.”— Havelock Ellis
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”— Ansel Adams
“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
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”— Ansel Adams