Quotes About Expression

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.