Quotes About Expression

You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.

You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.

America is me. It gave me the only life I know—so I must share in its survival. Look at me. Listen to me.

I hid myself in food.

It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects. Art works for all whom it can touch.

The drunk mind speaks the sober heart.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

And so, every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Art holds fast when all else is lost.

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.

Author unknown, c.1980s

Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot.

Let your imagination take you wherever you want to be. This piece of canvas truly is your world.

[S]ometimes, for an artist chronic pain can be a gift.

I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way — things I had no words for.

The object of true art is to charm the imagintion...

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

An artist makes visual the rhythms and arrhythmias of the universe.

Artists talk to themselves on canvas, mumbling scattered colors of emotion.

When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.