Quotes About Expression

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

Headline writing is an art form.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

We go for our own reality. I remember some of our guys saying it is way harder to make stylized art directed explosions of jade rather than a regular explosion of shrapnel.

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind.

In the arts there are many right answers.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

The arts are the signature of a nation.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

What I'm good at is making art.

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.