Quotes About Expression

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

Art destroys silence.

Drawing is the true test of art.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

The best art always comes unbidden.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.