Top 56 Art Express Yourself Quotes
#1. Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.
Robert Henri
#2. And yet I know that expressing oneself necessarily means being different. The writer's voice is a singular one, solitary. Art is nothing other than the freedom to express oneself in any language, in whatever manner, dressed any which way.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#3. The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.
Patricia Hampl
#4. Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
Goldwin Smith
#5. The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
Alex Grey
#6. I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.
Alex Meraz
#7. The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.
Sarah Bernhardt
#8. As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
Oscar Wilde
#9. She doesn't know any other way to express her love, it always flowed like a river inside her. Don't judge her for the way she love .Like an artist she carves each relation in her life wholeheartedly. Now its an art work , you might not like her art but don't doubt her love which created that.
Archna Mohan
#10. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
Daniel Bell
#11. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
Jackson Pollock
#12. Film is an incredible way to express yourself and your vision, as is fashion, but you have to make sure [to] be confident and honest and true to yourself and say something that means something, because that is really the point of any art.
Tom Ford
#13. It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.
Piet Mondrian
#14. The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#15. Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.
Henry James
#16. The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.
Don DeLillo
#17. YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRIT
Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
Miguel Ruiz
#18. My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
Jack Bowman
#19. Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.
Sean Penn
#20. Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
Russell Simmons
#21. She knew better: when artistry seems most elusive is when you must focus, dig deep, and force yourself to think about how to give form to an idea that seems too vague to express.
Maryanne O'Hara
#22. Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.
Coleman Young
#23. To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.
Bruce Lee
#24. Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.
Emily Rios
#25. Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.
Tom Ford
#26. Express yourself through your art - whether it's your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.
Kat Von D.
#27. I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.
Erin Heatherton
#28. What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.
Louise Bourgeois
#29. We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#30. If movies and music are vehicles for emotionally "hooking" people into Hollywood worldviews, then the best countermeasure is to create more compelling, more beautiful forms of art that express a biblical worldview.
Nancy Pearcey
#31. MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#32. Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.
Avril Lavigne
#33. Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
Walter Darby Bannard
#34. Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.
Michelle Phan
#35. Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.
William Temple
#36. Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?
Lewis Foreman Day
#37. Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.
David Sanborn
#38. To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.
Isadora Duncan
#39. Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery ...
Linda Evangelista
#40. He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
Don DeLillo
#41. Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client.
Peleg Top
#42. Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.
Wassily Kandinsky
#43. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Havelock Ellis
#44. There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.
Georges Vantongerloo
#45. Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.
Erik Parker
#46. After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.
Osamu Dazai
#47. To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
James Joyce
#48. People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's afraid to say, 'Keanu Reeves was bad in that movie.' We see so many films that we can tell who's faking it. But with art, we can't always tell.
William Quigley
#49. I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
Raymond Pettibon
#50. I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.
Paris Hilton
#52. Art is sacred.
Punk rock is freedom.
Expression and right to express is vital.
Anyone can be artistic.
Kurt Cobain
#53. The is nothing that art cannot express
Oscar Wilde
#54. For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
Edvard Munch
#55. What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express.
Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#56. I feel this society somewhere has lost its sense of what art is. Art is expression. In expression, you need 100% full freedom and our freedom to express our art is seriously being fucked with. Fuck, the word 'fuck' has many connotations as does the word 'art'.
Kurt Cobain