Quotes About Expression

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

There is no gap between art and politics.

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

You are the artist and the art.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.