Quotes About Expression

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

When one is painting one does not think.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.

Art is like ham-it nourishes people.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art