Quotes About Expression

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

The arts are not a way to make a living.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.