Quotes About Expression

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art.

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.