Quotes About Expression

Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

I didn't see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn't make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it's art, that's great, but I'll let history decide.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.