Quotes About Expression

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

If it sells, it's art.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Teaching is a performance art.

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.