Quotes About Art

Fashion is being 'you.' It is a form of expression.

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.

At the end of the day, makeup comes off whether you're a man or a woman; why discriminate against men, when makeup is such an amazing form of artistic expression, just because society says it's not 'normal?'

Music is an expression of life, who you are, and what you've been through.

I think design is the expression of its time and culture.

I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.

As a cinematographer or director, I'm always looking for projects that are able to say a lot with the actor's expressions.

'Khamoshi' gave me the chance to prove that expressions can also say what dialogue could.

Giving the voice and expressions to a character is giving it a soul.

I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.

When I write, there's always an image, sometimes a color attached to what's being created. I am delighted with the captured expressions - from my head and my heart. Their arrival onto canvas is beautiful.

I am more expressive when I dance.

Yes, I'm very expressive with my painting.

I think its dangerous when people think theyre being expressive. Yuck. Its like people who say theyre spiritual, innit. You make the work you want to make, and you get on with it and hopefully it connects with other people.

As an artist and as a Black woman coming out of a background that emphasizes service, there are certain responsibilities that I must assume. I see these responsibilities not as a burden, but as an extension of what I am.

I love acting, but that's also kind of what I love about ballet - the acting. So, obviously, film is like an extension of that, which is amazing, but it's also something I can do a bit later on as well.

When you have a relationship with music, and it's that deeply a part of your life, it's so much more than a career choice for me. It's an extension of who I am.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

Make-up is an extension of your clothes.

I started as a drummer. The feet are an extension of that.

I think dance is my extension. There is nothing that I can imagine without dance.

In fact, dance is an extension of who I am.

Actors may not realize the extent of their own power. Acting is creation. It's them bringing their own stuff, letting it marinate in their soul, in their creative engine.

Art does, to some extent, follow economics.