Quotes About Expression

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.

When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design.

I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing to other musicians. To me, it's more inspiring to move someone who doesn't know anything about music but has a feel.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

Men are objects to me.

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.