“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

— Francis Bacon

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English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and auth… 1561–1626

P. C. Cast book Betrayed

Source: Betrayed

“Of every noble work the silent part is best,
Of all expression that which can not be expressed.”

William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) American sculptor, art critic, poet, translator and editor

The Unexpressed.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Art

“Art is limitation…. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

G. K. Chesterton book Tremendous Trifles

Tremendous Trifles (1909)

“Nudity in a picture is such a delicate thing, and it is so rarely right. But it can be right if it's done by people with beautiful vision and if it becomes part of the melody of the situation. The body, after all, is a beautiful and secret thing.”

Nastassja Kinski (1961) German actress

As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.

“Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.”

Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist

"The Conservation Ethic" [1933]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 191.
1930s

“I feel that music is the art which can best express the emotions which flow within us. It conveys something bigger than it is.”

Andrew Sega (1975) musician from America

NAID '95 http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/pub/scene.org/parties/1995/naid95/misc/dn-naid_089.txt

“Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distils an idea.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

On the subject of criteria he used to judge in The Most Beautiful Tweet contest, Hay Festival 2010[citation needed]
2010s

“I had to find a way in each picture to change the drawing, shaping and tactile qualities to make these elements expressive; as the color had subsumed the possibility the possibility of these parts being on a equal basis of expressiveness.”

Kenneth Noland (1924–2010) American artist

Kenneth Noland, p. 10
Conversation with Karen Wilkin' (1986-1988)

“You can't direct a Laughton picture. The best you can hope for is to referee.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

Films and Filming (Volume 9, Issue 3; 1963), p. 20 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Films_and_Filming/GMARAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22you+can%27t+direct%22+hitchcock+laughton

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