Quotes About Expression

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

This is the golden age of grotesque.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.