Wayne Coyne Quotes

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

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

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.

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.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and dealing with people - I didn't know any other lens in which to do it.

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

I can't imagine a world where I wouldn't have the means of expression. When I talk to people who don't, it seems like they're really unhappy.

I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.

If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

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

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking

Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to the point where we are now ready to wipe ourselves off the earth. But I think that all the arts are needed, and sports too, and cooking, food, and all these different ways of communication. Smiles, looking into eyes directly, all these different means of communication are needed to save this world. But certainly a great melody

I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.