Quotes About Expression

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

I read once that [Pablo] Picasso felt if an artist ever felt totally satisfied with a work she ceased to be an artist. With that in mind, it seems like goals are a terrible idea then.

I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.

That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.