Quotes About Expression

Greatness in art is always a by-product.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It's OK to be the boss

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

Art is not disposable.