Quotes About Expression

Where does contagion end and art begin?

Art is my life and my life is art.

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.