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Quotes About Expression

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.
~ Lily Allen
The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.
~ Nick Lowe
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
~ Milan Kundera
You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
~ Damien Hirst
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.
~ Paula Scher
The great artist is the simplifier.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I simply find it boring to walk around like everybody else. I find it really great to stand out and do something special.
~ Bill Kaulitz
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
~ Stephen Rea
All great art contains an element of the irrational.
~ Edith Sitwell
Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
~ Charles Bukowski
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
~ Dick Gregory
That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.
~ Mike Patton
Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.
~ Peter O'Toole
Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.
~ Truman Capote
Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.
~ Philip Guston
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
~ Kara DioGuardi
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
~ Daniel Barenboim
The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.
~ Shepard Fairey
We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.
~ Haskell Wexler
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
~ Thom Yorke
But I always loved songs with great lyrics.
~ Johnny Ramistella
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
~ Bono
The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
~ Alexis Ohanian