Quotes About Expression

Art is a line around your thoughts.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.