Quotes About Expression

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

The motion picture is the people's Art.

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.