Quotes About Expression

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.

For art to be art it has to cure.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.