Quotes About Art

I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.

For me, drawing was an outlet. No one in school said, 'Oh, she can do sports,' or, 'She's pretty,' but I could draw.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

Anything that exposes the arts more, that gives us an outlet to make money and also do what we enjoy doing as artists and to connect with the fans, I'm all for it.

I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.

I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.

Theater is an amazing outlet.

I've always been the person who has needed a creative outlet.

I write books and songs and all sorts of bits and pieces on the side. It's important to have that creative outlet - I'm really passionate about it.

Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.

It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.

I'm not really good with explaining myself verbally, but I do it through music and other outlets.

Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

Any musical output is emotional.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a 'blogger,' as this is just one form of output for creative ideas.

It's so nice to be able to get up on stage and just say the most disgusting, ridiculous, outrageous, offensive thing, knowing it's just between you and the audience.

I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

To a certain extent, just like my children, I nurture my writing until the point when it has to get out and face the outside world, where it takes on a life of its own. That is a purpose of any artist and their art.