William T. Wiley Quotes

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Art has always been my salvation.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

Artists need to express.

Modeling isn't boring.

Make good art.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

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.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.