Quotes About Expression

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.

I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.