Quotes About Expression

All art is autobiographical.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

The most important thing in art is taste.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.