Quotes About Expression

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

Art transcends politics this weekend.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

there is no politically neutral art.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.