Quotes About Expression

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

My art has gained some high value.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.

Art cannot be above the battle.

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

Normal people do not create art.

It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.