Quotes About Expression

The arts don't exist in isolation.

Self-creation is the highest art.

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

Only art means anything.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

Reveal art; conceal the artist.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Music takes us where words cannot.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.