Quotes About Expression

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought.

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words...."

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.'

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

Ideas gathered from reading will always be bookish ideas. Go to the persons and objects directly. Have a painter's eye.

In cinema, words are a virus.