Quotes About Expression

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

I draw manga, therefore I am!

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

I paint my own reality.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Art is a kind of illness.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

The joy of dressing is an art.