Quotes about Expression
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
- Oscar Wilde
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art
- Albert Camus
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
- Ayn Rand
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
- Oscar Wilde
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
- CS Lewis
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
- Milan Kundera
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?
- CS Lewis
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
- Cicero
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
- Charles Dickens
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
- Walt Disney
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
- F Scott Fitzgerald