Quotes About Expression

There is no patriotic art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

I think art can reflect tragedy.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

Design provides solutions, art asks questions.

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

You can create art that makes people feel better.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.