Quotes about Expression

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

I thought I would be understood without words

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.