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.

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.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.