Quotes About Expression

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

What is art? Nature concentrated.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

The true artist can only labor con amore.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.