Quotes About Expression

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

Art is a self-replicating force.

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

My art became very public.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

Art is a journey of discovery.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.