Quotes About Expression

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

Surprise is key in all art.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.