Quotes about Expression
Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.
— Maya Angelou
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
— Marc Chagall
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
— Pablo Picasso
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
— Vincent Van Gogh
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
— Michelangelo
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
— Nikki Giovanni
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
— Martha Graham
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
— Oscar Wilde
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
— Virginia Woolf
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
— Pablo Picasso
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
— Pablo Picasso