Quotes About Expression

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse

I'm going to punch words in your ear holes.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

Art is a picture of the spirit.

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.

I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.

Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122)

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others' ideas to be realized.

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.

Art is long, life is short.

If you judge art by its cover, you efface the very essence of it