Quotes About Expression

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

Art is seduction, not rape.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.