Quotes About Expression

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

No art should be fashionable.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

If it has a use it isn't art.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.