Quotes on Artistic Expression

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.