Creative Expressionism Quotes

I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

I think that's always the hope - I mean, I can't speak for others, but I think other artists, no matter what type of medium they are using - whether it be from painting to acting to dancing, songwriting, or anything like that - I believe the desire is to get to the truth, and I think it's really hard to tell the truth.

I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

You have to - you have to allow something to tell you what it wants to be.

I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation.

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

To create is to resist; to resist is to create.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is doing the most I can with those voices and those landscapes.

I just create, that's what I do.