Quotes about Expression
I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.
— Tina Fey
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.
— Todd Haynes
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.
— Tucker Max
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
— Pablo Picasso
Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.
— Ayn Rand
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
— Oscar Wilde
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.
— Marty Rubin
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.
— Marty Rubin
Creativity takes courage.
— Henri Matisse
That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.