Quotes About Expression

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

All art is self-portraiture.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.