Quotes About Authenticity

I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make!

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

I don't like hype cluttering art.

Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real?

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.