Quotes About Expression

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

As far as my opinion on galleries, I think they are a great thing. I see them as another outlet. I'm sure by now you've figured out that I do my work for everybody to see. That's the whole point.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

I use poetry to help me work through what I don't understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I've been.