Quotes About Expression

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

Art is nothing; it's a way.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Art is the questioning of culture

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Art is nothing without form.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.

The divine art is the story.

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.