Quotes About Expression

I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

The song of the brush.

We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.

A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.

What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.

The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.

The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

Art for art's sake.

Art is difficult transient is her reward.