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Quotes About Expression

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
~ Charlie Haden
Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.
~ LL Cool J
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
All art is erotic.
~ Gustav Klimt
With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.
~ Wayne Coyne
For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.
~ Pawel Pawlikowski
We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.
~ Chris Bangle
To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
~ Joseph Brodsky
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
~ Philippe Petit
I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.
~ Edward Hirsch
Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.
~ Rupi Kaur
I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.
~ Jamila Woods
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
~ Susan Vreeland
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
~ Giuseppe Verdi
To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
~ Laura Dern
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
~ Miles Davis
Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.
~ Slash
Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude
~ Unknown
A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression.
~ Peter Brook
My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.
~ Lana Del Rey
What a writer brings to any story is an attitude
~ John Gregory
Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!
~ Iris Apfel
Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.
~ Bruce Lee