Quotes About Expression

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

Write while the heat is in you.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.