Quotes About Expression

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.