Quotes About Expression

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art.

They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.