Quotes About Expression

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

An art book is a museum without walls.

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Painting is more important than art.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.