Quotes About Expression

That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Music is the ultimate teacher.

Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. And from this results that modern desire for rhythm in painting, for mathematical, abstract construction, for repeated notes of colour, for setting colour in motion.

Form itself, even if completely abstract ... has its own inner sound.

That is beautiful which springs from inner need, which springs from the soul

The artist must be blind to "recognized" and "unrecognized" form, deaf to the teachings and desires of his time. His open eyes must be directed to his inner life and his ears must be constantly attuned to the voice of inner necessity.

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. Efforts to revive the art-principles of the past will at best produce an art that is still-born. It is impossible for us to live and feel, as did the ancient Greeks.

La intuición con la que nace el artistas es el talento evangélico que no debe enterrar. El artista que no utiliza sus dotes es un esclavo perezoso.

Repetition is a potent means of heightening the inner vibration and is, at the same time, a source of elementary rhythm which, in turn, is a means to the attainment of elementary harmony in every form of art.

Thus we look upon the geometric point as the ultimate and most singular union of silence and speech.

to stand in front of some of his drawings or pictures gives a keener and more spiritual pleasure than any other kind of painting.

Cualquier creación artística es hija de su tiempo y, la mayoría de las veces, madre de nuestros propios sentimientos. Igualmente, cada periodo cultural produce un arte que le es propio y que no puede repetirse. Pretender revivir principios artísticos del pasado puede dar como resultado, en el mejor de los casos, obras de arte que sean como un niño muerto antes de nacer. Por ejemplo, es totalmente imposible sentir y vivir interiormente como lo hacían los antiguos griegos.

It has been said above that art is the child of its age. Such an art can only create an artistic feeling which is already clearly felt. This art, which has no power for the future, which is only a child of the age and cannot become a mother of the future, is a barren art. She is transitory and to all intent dies the moment the atmosphere alters which nourished her.

Renk klavye, gözler tokmaklar, ruh ise piyanodur. Sanatç? da piyanoyu çalan eldir. Tu?lara dokunarak ruhta titre?imler yarat?r.

the relationships in art are not necessarily ones of outward form, but are founded on inner sympathy of meaning.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.