Quotes About Expression

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

There is no art without Eros.

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.