Quotes About Expression

You cannot own a symphony or a novel in the way you can own a Damien Hirst. As a result there are far fewer fake symphonies or fake novels than there are fake works of visual art.

When you write music that you are very passionate about, being able to bring the visual aspect of it alive with the music is what ties everything together.

I don't like the lip-syncing-type videos. I like for people to listen to the words and see the visual.

My visual medium is my videos, and I've got to feel as though I can put my truth in that.

Most of the theatre work that you see in India is very verbose and the visual is whatever you can create on stage.

Flowers are just a natural thing in my life. I gravitate towards them so much, just in every video that I do, every visual, for some reason, flowers are incorporated.

Art is really more musical than it is visual.

I feel like visual art, the culinary arts, the theatrical arts - the medium changes, the tools that you use to tell whatever the story changes, but you're still all telling stories.

I've been doing visual stuff for as long as I've been making records; in fact, for longer.

You know, there's so many great bands out there, visual bands, that we have to do something that makes us individual, and makes us stick out from everybody else, and something that is even bigger than just the music.

Music doesn't have to sit within the confines of pop structure, you can really make stuff that's more visual.

I see my music as a visual thing. When I'm on stage I am very expressive with my face and through my performance - kind of like an actress but not really, it just rises up from inside with the music.

Honestly, I've been reading a lot of books on visual art. I've been reading a lot of books by Olivia Lang, I've been listening to a lot of folk and singer-songwriter music, but also a lot of electronic and really hard techno. I'm just trying to create something that pulls from everywhere and that hopefully feels unique.

I always thought that was very important, to be able to deliver great lyrics and also put on a great performance, to have that type of visual where people would take to it, where they'd want to dress like you or have pictures of you hanging up on the wall.

Most of the time I write visually. I get a visual of me in the audience watching the concert. I usually come up with the hooks first. Like with 'Old School.'

When I'm working on new ideas, musically much of what's played is guided by a visual appearance or shape.

I'm a visual person, and I love visual extremes and aesthetic discipline.

Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their work and I think there still is a dominance of males.

You don't work in a vacuum. If you're a visual artist you work in a visual culture. If you're a pop musician you listen to pop music. If you're an artist you should know about the art world.

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

Music, dance, literature and the visual arts open up a rich and intensely rewarding world. It is a world that should not be the preserve of the few.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.