Quotes About Expression

Art should be born from the materials.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it.

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Art can make chaos seductive.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.

Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.