Lenny Bruce Quotes

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

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.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

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

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

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

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

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

With soccer, I have the ability to do things differently. That is why I admire Leonardo da Vinci. He was able to create things other people wouldn't believe in.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

I love street and I love ballet and I love to convey what I can.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

Without freedom there is no art.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.