Quotes About Expression

One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

You could say science also is an art.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

I don't see art as entertainment.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.