Quotes About Expression

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.

Posing is a performing art.

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.