Quotes About Expression

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

What is art? Prostitution.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.