Quotes About Expression

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

The camera basically is a license to explore.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.