Quotes About Expression

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Music is the perfect type of art.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Art should never be popular.

Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.