Quotes About Expression

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

I've been arrested a few times, but I've never been in real trouble. Because what I do is art and even if it is illegal, Art is a universal activity, and artists are generally respected.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.