Quotes About Expression

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

I personally always hated Pop art.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

All art is but imitation of nature.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

The temple of art is built in words.

The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.

Don't try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.