Gloria Steinem Quotes

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

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

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

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.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

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

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.

I believe all of us should have the freedom to have our personal take on how art affects us.

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 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.

But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.