Quotes About Expression

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Cinema is an art form.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

Art arises from the interaction of the mind and the heart.

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

I try to conceal art with art.