Quotes About Expression

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

Teaching is performance art.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.