Quotes About Expression

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.

Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.

I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

I use whatever media I think will best express my ideas and therefore I don't have a lot invested in the idea of photography specifically. I am more interested in Art.

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.