Quotes About Expression

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

Art is an investigation.

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.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Change art to include yourself.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

A bone heals, a bruise fades, but art is forever

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer