Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together, creating a consensus. And consensus is antithetical to the art process.

Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what you’re parents want you to do, or what that beautiful girl or guy thinks you should be doing. Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go. Go out there and make the world more beautiful. I know you can.

All art is based on non-conformity.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

Every man is an artist.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different.

We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.