Quotes About Expression

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.

Art should not have to be a certain way.

Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

In the art game we do our own cooking.

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

Don't think about making art.