Expression Quotes - Page 4

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art.

I feel this society somewhere has lost its sense of what art is. Art is expression. In expression, you need 100% full freedom and our freedom to express our art is seriously being fucked with. Fuck, the word 'fuck' has many connotations as does the word 'art'.

Art is just an expression. An expression isn't the same as an act, as much as it sometimes feels that way.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.

Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas - can literally, literally move mountains