Quotes About Expression

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

There are films that can only be made in a specific country but that have a wider meaning. I think that's true of any art form.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

Believe in the importance of your art.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.