Quotes About Expression

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.

Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Work such as you will not have to have the money. Adore like you've got by no means been damage. Dance like nobody's seeing.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good.

When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.