Quotes About Expression

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Each body has its art.

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head