Quotes About Expression

I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

The power of art can open our minds.

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in the private domain.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.