Quotes About Expression

It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

art, n. This word has no definition.

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

Only the poor can create art.

I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.