Quotes About Expression

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.