Expressive Art Quotes

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

My Paintings are Battles.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know? Andit's designed to move swiftly from, you know, mouth to mouth, heart to heart,where a poem really speaks to something that has no time and that is - it's acompletely different perception.

The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

Performing is one of the best feelings I know!

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

I've always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren't moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration. There's great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.