Quotes About Expression

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

Art is a wound turned into light.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Art has an obligation to offend

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

Art is an escape from reality.