Quotes About Expression

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

Art for me is like breathing.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

Art is a delayed echo.