Quotes About Expression

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.