Quotes About Expression

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

Everything combines for the works of Merzbow. I don't see them as being different and separate. ...Music and art is not separate. I mix rock sounds and art together .

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

But of works of art little can be said.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.