Quotes about Expression

the poet must sing, and the sculptor think in bronze, and the painter make the world a mirror for his moods, as surely and as certainly as the hawthorn must blossom in spring, and the corn turn to gold at the harvest-time, and the moon in her ordered wanderings change from shield to sickle, and from sickle to shield.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.

Art is theft.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs.

I do not evolve, I AM.

Learn the rule like a pro so you can break them like an artist.

We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Use what language you will,' said Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'you can never say anything but what you are.