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.
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately even though there's pressure to.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression whether they are paintings sculptures tragedies or musical compositions.
Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing back to a place of innocence.
Man is unique not because he does science and his is unique not because he does art but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
Works of art often last forever or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves especially gallery exhibitions are like flowers they bloom and then they die then exist only as memories or pressed in magazines and books.
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations large paintings and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.
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).
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is intimacy spirituality color aspiration towards the infinite expressed by every means available to the arts.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
Art has a double face of expression and illusion just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.