Quotes About Expression

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

Art needs to stand for something.

Art should stimulate.

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

Without freedom there is no art.

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

We will die, but art will remain.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.