Quotes About Expression

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

If your heart is broken, make art with the pi

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

Art is science made clear.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

True art awakens theExtraordinaryOvation

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

every good artist paints what he is

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!