Quotes About Expression

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Art is not only about angst.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.