Quotes About Expression

Art and politics have many things in common.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.