Quotes About Expression

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

All my works are games, serious game.

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.

What can art really do in the face of atrocity?

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.