Quotes About Expression

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

Art should never try to be popular.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.

Art without heart is craft.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.