Quotes About Expression

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's fine. But that's not why I do them. I'm a gun for hire.

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece