Artistic Expression Quotes

“As far as I know, every person has a dream. Every person is a born artist.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“Deep inside, we are all artists who can't find the crayons that were given to us in playschool.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth.
Art lives on but wealth diminishes.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“A person’s work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The true artist resides on the inside.
The outside is chaos, bondage and destruction.
The inside is peace, freedom, and creation.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Be true to the artist in you and the art will be true to you.”
― Christina Strigas, A Book of Chrissyisms

“His words were simple. They had no art to them, which of course was also art.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“[Excerpt from Kenneth Brown testimony] These works use often repulsive techniques and vocabulary to make-to insist-that people will look at the whole of things and not just one side. These artists wish not to divide the world in half and say one is good and one is bad and avoid the bad and accept the good, but you must, to be a real and whole person, you must see all of life, and see it in a balanced, honest way. I would include Mr. Bruce, certainly, in his intent, and he has success in doing this, as did Rabelais and Swift.”
― Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

“It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Everything of significance you need to know about an artist hides, in plain sight, in their work.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“If a dream were made of stone, it would be of the purest white marble”
― Robin Blair-Crawford

“Water can be drawn from a well, or drawn on a sheet of paper.
Art, in whatever form, is art.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Hidden in dreams are arts that haven’t been crafted, and songs that haven’t been chanted.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson , The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Dreams are the clay through which we mold our art.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Maybe anyone could be an artist, no matter what she did for a living, as long as she found a way to create beauty in her own life.”
― Brit Bennett, Meet Claudie

“Art supersedes knowledge written in books.
Art is the muse.
Art is magic settling upon your he[art] like dust.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Art is your thought leaping.
Art is your mind dancing.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“To create art is to dance to the tune of your he[art].”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Create art for art's sake, not for profit’s sake.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Show me how you portray nature, and I shall tell you who you are.”
― Oskar Schlemmer, The Letters and Diaries of Oskar Schlemmer

“The thing with amateur local theatre is, it is almost always bad BUT keeping it alive is the most important thing.

The joys of artistic expression cannot be limited to talented people. Everybody needs it to survive.”
― powerbottombrucespringsteen

“Your sensuality is not a perception or trend. It is an artistic expression of your soul’s core desire. It is your truest essence and beauty. Own it!”
― Lebo Grand

“Magic is real. It is artistic expression and creative endeavour.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“You are the note that gives my heart rhythm and the brushstroke that finishes my painting.”
― Sushant Poudel

“There are other sacred ordinances. When we think of them, we see communion, marriage, and baptism. Really, all three ordinances are theater pieces depicting God’s relationship with His beloved.”
― Laura Bartnick, BEING CREATIVE

“The arbitrary influences affecting artists' vocabularies are many, and not necessarily all beneficial. The limiting trends of the day, the biting criticism, or the instruction insistent upon getting us to conform against our temperament can affect the work in profound ways, sometimes stalling us for decades.”
― Kate Kretz, Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice

“Artistic "style" that does not evolve as a result of a natural process is the embodiment of "fake it till you make it," referring to the way something APPEARS, not the way that it IS. It's a veneer, a hollow afterthought technique hung on the artwork to dress it up... I prefer to think in terms of the artist's VOICE. Voice is deeper, manifested from the very core of your being. You earn it through research, experimentation, and discovery. It is a synthesis of the experiences, intellectual concepts, and aesthetic interests you possess, executed in your distinctive way, in the formal, emotional and intellectual language of your chosen medium. When successful, the realization of your voice follows the gestalt principle. The combination of your ideas and the work's physical embodiment is greater than the sum of its parts and distinguishes your outcome from everyone else's.”
― Kate Kretz, Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice

“Lifecast by Stewart Stafford

Lifecast
Be your play's lead actor,
Beware of its shooting star,
In drama's immortal mania,
Your reputation carries far.

Fish your dawn-gold phrases,
From out the impostor's throat,
Your tongue streaming candor,
Not stumbling forth by rote.

Let no Salieri hand,
Override your author's claim,
Even if remuneration's elusive,
You may still relish the acclaim.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Whatever passes our path is ours to use, to fold into a story decades later, to find some wisdom that surpasses time.”
― Laurie E. Smith

“The most selfish thing i have done is, poetry.”
― Yarro Rai, The Prose will be forgotten