Quotes About Expression

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

Fashion is every woman's language, and every woman's tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the most intimate art forms I can think of.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.