Artistic Expressionism Quotes

I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

I believe in artists. I'm an advocate for artists.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.

Artists need to express.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would have to stop acting altogether in order to become a painter. At the moment, I'm still interested and active as an actor and director. Besides, I rather think acting and painting are all part of the same creative urge.

There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.

My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

I used to think of exhibitions as being practice but they are not.

Artists are like everybody else.

Both my parents were painters.

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

Art penetrates, no matter how many bans you put out.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.