Quotes About Expression

Don't pressure your daughter or your son to conform to gender stereotypes. If your son wants to take ballet classes, cheer him on. If your daughter wants to study marshal arts and computer programming, sign her up. Teach your son that there are all kinds of man in the world including men who excel at ballet and macrame. Teach your daughter that there are all kinds of women in the world, including women who are masters of karate and computer programming.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

To become an artist you have to be curious.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

Art is never completed, only abandoned.

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

art is never finished, only abandoned

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

E veramente accade che sempre dove manca la ragione suppliscono le grida[...]

It was the opinion of Leonardo that the temporary nature of music caused its inferiority to painting. Although durability was in itself no absolute test,—else the work of coppersmiths would be the highest art,—yet in any final scale, permanence could not altogether be disregarded. Music perished in the very act of its creation, while painting preserved the beautiful from the hand of time.

reality the fancy of his dreams, and give outward expression to the ideal within.

A painter without a brush is like a weasel without a tongue

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

El pintor es dueño de todas las cosas que el hombre pueda pensar... lo que en el universo existe por esencia, presencia o imaginación, él lo tiene antes en su mente y en sus manos luego

I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Who was I now—woman or man? That question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; it could never be answered if it had to be asked.