Quotes About Expression

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because science either walks or runs but art has wings to fly!

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or some sort of madness", she said.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

Nothing else exists when art does.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.