Quotes About Expression

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.

I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.