Shania Twain Quotes

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

Artists need to express.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Make good art.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

People think art comes out of strife. No, art comes out of love, and it comes out of freedom, and it comes out of feeling safe, and it comes out of feeling embraced by the vibe and by the energy. That's when you can make your best stuff.

I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.