Expressionism Art Quotes

#1. The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

Christopher McDougall

#2. Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

Hermann Bahr

#3. You can drink too much tea.

Gordon Brown

#4. Painters
and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

Alfie Kohn

#6. Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Gates McFadden

#7. And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

Candace Bushnell

#8. Please stop trifling.

Albert Camus

#9. We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol

#10. Art is not about beauty, art is an expression.

Vikram Roy

#11. I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Tony Robbins

#12. If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own.

Gustav Ejstes

#13. I'll kiss your feet if you'd scratch my nose.

Sandra Jones

#14. Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.

Max Beckmann

#15. Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#16. When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.

Peter Saul

#17. I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.

Mark Rothko

#18. Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago?

Shannon Hale

#19. So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose for which there is no alternative...art, if you like, is really a lack of alternatives."

-Jonathan Meese

Prestel Publishing

#20. I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

Sinead O'Connor

#21. Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#22. Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

Robert Motherwell

#23. Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

Jerry Saltz