Quotes About Expression

Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

We do have to be a witness to our art.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

Art never lies, I believe.