Quotes About Vulnerability

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

I've learned you can't take any steps to protect any art. It is so vulnerable.

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human.

That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".

you write your best lyrics when you most vulnerable

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling.