Tom Anderson Quotes

Burning Man is a crowning achievement of freedom in festival culture.

At Burning Man, the audience is the show: the boundaries between stage and public overlap and melt. Every form of self-expression, every fantasy... everything has a place. It's kind of a utopia, and everyone who sets foot in it is so impressed that they do their best to respect it and keep it alive.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.

I definitely do not think of makeup as, like, a validation type thing. For me, it's a creative outlet and an art form. It's not like, 'Oh my God, I need to feel pretty.' It's like, 'This is so cool. I just created art on my face.

My evangelical phase about Burning Man is well and truly in the past.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

You absolutely cannot be big time tech guy without attending Burning Man.

Writing is an art, just like any other creative exercise - painting a picture, singing a song or dancing. It is an expression of your feelings.

I love creating art, whether it's with photos, my own body, or clothes.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

All good poems are victories over something.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.