Quotes About Expression

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

Art does not explain.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.