Quotes About Expression

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

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.