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Quotes About Expression

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.
~ Marcel Boulestin
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
~ William Shakespeare
Our art is an adventure. It is a dream come true.
~ Jack White
Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
~ Twyla Tharp
Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.
~ Walter Kirn
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
~ Robert Townsend
Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.
~ Meher Baba
I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.
~ Pierre Soulages
To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.
~ Bruce Lee
Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
~ Ziggy Marley
Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.
~ Larry McMurtry
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
~ Marina Abramovic
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
~ Carlisle Floyd
Art is craft, not inspiration.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Art is the escape from personality.
~ T. S. Eliot
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.
~ Frida Kahlo
It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.
~ Robert Benchley
"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."
~ Leo Tolstoy
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
~ Paul Klee
I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.
~ Javier Bardem
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
~ Pablo Picasso
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
~ Kit Williams
Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.
~ Unknown