Quotes About Expression

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

All art is political, all art is a martial one.

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.

Art is what is irresistible.

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.