Quotes About Expression

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.