Quotes about Expression
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
— Pablo Picasso
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
— Pablo Picasso
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
— Pablo Picasso
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
Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization
— Pope Francis