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Quotes About Expression

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.
~ Winona Ryder
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
~ John Ruskin
Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.
~ Tina Brown
People in misery is what most important in art.
~ Zhang Yimou
Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.
~ Sean Lennon
Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.
~ Luiz Bolognesi
We'll always have art, darling.
~ Ruth Wilson
Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.
~ Unknown
I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.
~ Michael Longley
Art's supposed to build logic structures.
~ Lawrence Weiner
I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it's going to do it visually or physically, I'll take either way.
~ Robert Longo
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
~ John Crowe Ransom
Film really is a collaborative art.
~ Cleve Jones
Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.
~ Rick Bass
If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.
~ Robert Bateman
In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.
~ Constantin Brancusi
Art chooses its constraints.
~ Mason Cooley
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.
~ Charles de Lint
Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?
~ Constantin Brancusi
Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.
~ Pat Schneider
Pop culture was in art Now, art's in pop culture in me
~ Lady Gaga
I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.
~ Talib Kweli
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
~ John Drinkwater