Quotes About Expression

Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

The aim of art is to create space.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

Art is basically entertainment.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.