Quotes About Expression

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

Directing is a tremendous art.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'