Expression Through Art Quotes

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.

I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

All art is a kind of confession.

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

What I make isn't about me. It's about sharing my story; it's about someone being connected to what I'm saying.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.