Quotes About Expression

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Where the material ends, art begins.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

art is the pulse of a nation.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.