Quotes About Expression

All I owe the world is my art.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

No art comes from the conscious mind.

I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

All artists are two-headed calves.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.