Quotes About Expression

A pianist is a painter of music

It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures.

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

That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".

I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Facts produce structures, objects are lyrical realities.

When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.

Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.

Art is not what you see but what you make others see

Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.

Creating is like the oxygen in my air.

Art is the product of an imperfect world. In an ideal world, art would not exist.

Creative freedom is prosperity for the soul.

Art is the product of an imperfect world. In a perfect world, art would not exist.

The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.

The impossible is what we achieve through art.

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

My response to stress is just as complex as my artwork.

If you're to explain your works, then surely you have chosen wrong audience!

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

Every second in the air in Paris is art.