Quotes About Expression

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

The life I live is my art work.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

One works without thinking how to work.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.

Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.