Quotes About Expression

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

All truly great art is propaganda.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Great art changes you.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.