Yukio Mishima Quotes

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.

Art is all a matter of personality.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.

My version of Dolly was mine, and it shouldn't be anyone else's.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

My music is about identity.

Without freedom there is no art.

You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

You are the artist and the art.

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

Every human being is an artist

For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, ‘Thou art no Poet may’st not tell thy dreams?’ Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved And been well nurtured in his mother tongue. Whether the dream now purpos’d to rehearse Be poet’s or fanatic’s will be known When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave.

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

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

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.