Quotes About Expression

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

War is the highest form of modern art.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

Art is the soul of a people.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

I feel like when I fight it's an art, and Art isn't supposed to be 'nice', it isn't supposed to be liked. It's supposed to make you feel something.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?