Quotes About Expression

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.