Quotes About Expression

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

There is no art without contemplation.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

All great art is a form of complaint

A work of art is an exaggeration.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Art is what separates us from the animals.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can't articulate.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.