Quotes About Expression

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great... it's necessary.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

The artist is justified by his art.

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

Timing has a lot to with art.

You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

I can concentrate on my art.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.