Best Artistic Expression Quotes

"Spirited Away is a celebration of everything that Cinema can and should be."

"I want my life to be my best work of art, and I want my music to be my best work of art. I wanna be my best work of art."

"The best movies are where you can feel the hand of the filmmaker."

"Music can make you cry, it can make you happy, it can make you rock into all the depths."

"I am looking for beautiful lines, for great feet, for technique."

"Creative writing, whether it is poetry, writing a book, or writing anything, is one of your creative gifts."

"A beautiful definition of storytelling for me is truth well told."

"The whole point of this film is to show the fundamental importance of self-expression and human connection."

"Tattoos really reflect the artists that are doing 'em."

"Making beautiful films or films that appeal to the hearts and essences of people is not a winners and losers game...when people have to vote, they have to kind of vote with their heart and their intuition."

"Photography is not about learning how to configure the settings on your camera; it's about lighting, composition, art, mood, posing, finding the right location for a landscape shot, planning the right time to be there."

"Always remember, the goal of tuning is not to make the vocals robotic but to enhance their natural beauty and expression."

"Artists, create what you want to create. Art is about expression, and I hope you'll continue to express the things you love with others who love it. That's all that matters."

"To see him trying to push the envelope, to find new ways of expressing himself, putting himself in artistic danger, it was beautiful."

"Every single one of us, we are creators. We need to create things, we need to create beautiful things."

"I just hope that all of the rappers that came out of this scene that still have their freedom remain safe, make the right choices, and continue making music that the fans love because at the end of the day it's all about the music."

"Lighting is not just about creating a proper exposure; it's about creating depth and the illusion of three dimensions in a two-dimensional medium."

"All you can really look at is her face, with the positioning of it, but also the way that she's gazing at the camera. And there's a really beautiful subtle expression that Emma's giving here."

"I think, no. I mean, obviously, there's levels of everything that I do that is creative."

"Producing records... is just about the best thing you can do as an artist."

"With color, it's all about your personal expression."

"Music for me is... I wanted to achieve this kind of status where people are unable to... do away with this notion of genre. Most of the artists I admire the most are people that I could say they kind of created their own musical universe."

"I used to feel the pain in the music, the struggle, you used to feel the soul in the music."

"Do what you love. Honestly, guys, this person also could be an artist of some kind or you can be an artist, and you guys are meant to fuel each other's creativity."

"No one cares how erratically silky your blends are if the piece doesn't speak to them. Show the people something they haven't seen before."

"It's like childbirth. You spend all this time working on something, and then when your baby's born, you're proud of it and you forget about all the labor pains."

"I like my creativity to be a multi-sensory experience."

"I think it's still out there. I think there is still genuine creativity that exists; it just needs to be allowed to flourish more."

"Blood, sweat, and tears, I still think that might be the best music video by them ever."

"But we got a lot more music to play, man. A lot more music to play."

"Meek is capable of these immense feats of emotional intelligence and narrative."

"Making music was like taking a stroke of the brush and creating something that would live over the years, that'll last a lifetime."

"I'm advocating for the right to be inspired by someone who appears to be complex when they're writing rhymes."

"Kubrick said, 'It has always seemed to me that really artistic, truthful ambiguity—if we can use such a paradoxical phrase—is the most perfect form of expression, for a number of reasons.'"

"Everything I spit is raw terror, now I'm playing they know I'm all about smiles on faces, keeping my inner child creative."

"Once you feel freedom, once you feel like creating something and putting it out the way you want to put it out, it's hard to go back."

"I'm honest enough to tell you that a lot of the content on this record very strongly applies to me."

"Art doesn't have to always make you feel cozy and comfortable and happy. It's okay to make something abrasive."

"This person... has a crush on you because there's something about your artistic expression that makes them go crazy."

"Music has always opened the door to artistic expression."

"Poetry is the most intelligent form of artistic expression."

"Using contrast to really enhance your photos rather than distract in your photos gives you more leverage to create beautiful imagery."

"I'm going to start working on the lightning bolt. We can have like a lightning bolt with a bunch of smoke around it."

"The sky's your limit. You can do anything that you want through screen printing, and the screen is your canvas."

"The bad thing is a big experiment for me, you know, trying to do something other than being in the streets. But that's, I think, the things you go through making love, and that's what makes me so special as an artist, because I'm willing to say some things a lot of other artists won't say."

"I felt like The Caretaker's work would finally be the vehicle to which I could express this intense feeling and make it tangible and experiential."

"It's creators like Kirby that remind us we're all just humans; we all share many of the same questions about life, and we are all in this together."

"If people are reacting to what you're doing, then that is a success. That's a sign of success. The worst thing is indifference."

"The whole point to exaggeration of the figure is to convey energy."

"With hip-hop, what you're really getting is the artist's own expression."

"If you're creative and you want to invest in your craft and you're not really in that right space, it translates."

"If you're an artist out there and you feel like you are being silenced and that you're afraid, just reach out to me...so many of us are afraid."

"Music, as a body of knowledge, can continue in an iterative fashion without having to worry about copyright in the legal system preventing this particular form of expression."

"Shoot what you love, submit that, and then as you get in the comfort zone, then you start broadening your horizons."

"My burnout wasn't because I was tired of producing; it was because I was creating what doesn't fulfill me."

"Life is strange is one of a kind for this medium."

"The only way to create proficiently, is to create from a place of joy."

"Feeling the music is actually a really important part of it."

"It's not necessarily about deciphering it. It's about what it means to you."

"The nature of his imagery is so vast all we're doing is capturing what's already intrinsically cinematic."

"You kind of get this creative freedom, which is really creatively freeing."

"Games, movies, anime, whatever they are, art—an artist's objective being an art form which is perceived differently by different people—is precisely why I don't believe media can be appraised objectively."

"Subtlety in the values is really something that I really enjoy creating."

"The best part of being a Creator is you have creative control."

"How can you look at private property speculation, artificial scarcity, and egoism then say yes, this is good? I want that. Let's put that in art."

"Comedy should be free and a critique of our society."

"Metallica embodies sophistication within rawness."

"No one’s out here calling male artists bitter when they write about women who broke their hearts."

"Wasted is not been wasted it's being put together into a beautiful Masterpiece of Mosaic."

"I'm going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell."

"By being thoughtful and nuanced around the choices that you make, you can add so much dimension to the music that you play and also the music that you listen to."

"Sometimes the most beautiful melodies are born from the pain of life's most challenging moments."

"It's postmodern, yeah alright, we're in for the sake of weird."

"I just have a need to show the world how I see the world through human beings."

"The execution of his perfect suicide is just... Beautiful."

"Musicians and artists a lot of times, in terms of when art becomes commerce, is just a reflection of where society is."

"Janis Joplin's scorching interpretation stands as one of the most profoundly passionate performances."

"Janis Joplin wasn't singing the song, the song seemed to be singing Janis."

"Children paint like children much better than adults."

"The movement of hip-hop, peace, love, unity, having fun, it comes out of the civil rights movement, the continuation of that struggle to get free."

"It takes a very narcissistic temperament for you to change your reality for my first album and a narcissist struggles saying that they are wrong and that they've made a mistake."

"Games are made by humans with their own views, and just like any other art form, those views will somehow or another make it into their game."

"Just because you don't relate to what she has to say doesn't mean that you can completely ignore her talent."

"Artistic integrity, drawing, music, sculpting, it's anything goes in the Artistic integrity category, that's just nice."

"The music and the story... has always been very freeing for me."

"Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances."

"We need to trust acting as an art form and find beauty in the many ways it can be mastered."

"Little Simz might be an introvert sometimes, but she's more than capable of delivering a powerful personal statement. Stellar work."

"The lyrics about knowing you have fully moved on from a place, that perfect guitar hook, the backing vocals from Lucius."

"Fear Inoculum is constructed by Tool to be a literal work of alchemy."

"I think any music that proclaims itself as having absolutely no interest in being music is kind of like the most interesting music."

"What made y'all make the 'Daijobu' song? I remember one night, man, I was talking, the song itself, like, it's not talking about suicide or it's not talking about drugs, it's just the picture we wanted to drive home with the video."

"Each form brings a different kind of elegance to it."

"During the 1970 World Cup, Brazil epitomized the expression 'the beautiful game'."

"It's incredibly refreshing to see filmmakers using the medium of film to their best advantage."

"It's funny, it's riveting, it's harrowing, it's beautiful."

"Put your art out there, be bold about your art."

"We wanted it to be as realistic as possible, as believable as possible."

"We make music, we're making music, we're cooking, we're cooking music, we're cooking music, musical food." - Nathan

"Just wanted to thank you, I used to paint realism paintings and oils."

"Creative expression, you can do whatever you want with creativity."

"My bank account like the end of a rainbow every time that I spit as a flame."

"You gotta watch my yellow music video... I'm like, yellow did that!"

"Life goes up and down like manic depressions, move but kill the session, dude, what I forever do."

"Claim your art, be bold, and put yourself out there."

"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing. They evoke mystery."

"We're excited to have the freedom to tell stories we want to tell."

"It's really hard every time I make a song to make a song and like the song might be like totally milquetoast and it was still really hard and that's like the funny thing about like actually creating anything."

"This man is a visionary, the evolved individual who has dealt with all sorts of adversities and obstacles and been able to make his way through it through his art and his talent."

"It is enough to forget, it is enough to borrow from the dead a voice to sing through to survive the season."

"It's almost like magic. The way I wrote the lines really, really short makes it feel like they're trying to speak over the noise."

"Hwang Dong-hyuk succeeded in artfully expressing his life to allow us to reflect on our own."

"Winning feels awesome, the combat is fluid with punch, the world is layered with exploration, and once again From Software smacks you over the head with that atmosphere and art direction."

"At the end of the day, Noah Holley decided to not make a philosophical argument with the show, but rather an artistic one."

"Art is where you create something that shows the world as you see it."

"My goal isn't perfect exposure, it's to create emotion."

"These fixation on symbols... the antidote to those symbols are counter symbols, ideas, and art."

"Immersed in art, we find authenticity more often in style than in reality."

"Good style and sound elevates even the poopiest of poops."

"By making the theme visual, we can understand it on a deeper subconscious level."

"The gorgeous world of the Mughals isn't just a display of spending. It's never godless or merely greedy. Fountain for fountain, palace for palace, garden for garden - all of it is an attempt to imagine the Islamic paradise."

"Only a handful of filmmakers have succeeded to make nudity appear artistic than vulgar."

"The title of a painting is another color on the artist’s palette."

"I think filmmaking in cinema is illusion right and to me visual effects is sort of the ultimate expression of that particular artistic idea."

"It takes great arrogance to paint a picture like this."

"There's nothing worse than wanting to tell a story or sing a song and not knowing how to do it."

"It's a filmic, you know, first. I just want to make a story."

"Music creates tension and then relieves tension."

"It really makes the puppets pop out and me kind of recede in a way that makes me even like well."

"Musicals offer a window into what someone is thinking or imagining."

"The backroom series is perfect... it feels like something that exists in the world."

"My role in society or any artist or poet's role is to try and express what we all feel, not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all." - John Lennon

"I'm glad I finally did this and made a bit of a portfolio for the style of Animation that I like the most."

"Art can be anything... you just don't have to bring anything to it other than yourself."

"More maximalist than everything else... made me believe in the power of Cinema."

"Tupac was a genius. It wasn't just rapping, you know what I mean? It wasn't just to make words rhyme, it was mainly to make it poetic."

"The game is an artistic representation of mental health... diving into the brains of different people."

"This album cover always really wowed me when I first saw it."

"Artists thrive in the darkest times throughout history."

"His images stand alone, but who he is matters."

"Creating is hard. The best we can do is sit down and create something, anything, and let the process organically unfold tolerating ambiguity, frustration, and changes in the grand plan."

"I want you to hear my music and go, damn, I relate to this."

"It represents a Mastery of technology and art that shines brightly throughout."

"He takes hip hop to a new level as opposed to keeping it popular with the same cliches that everyone else already does."

"Anytime I approach a score, it's all about the heart. What is the heart that we're trying to connect? Because that's what music does."

"We're just gonna make stuff and uh, hope that people like it."

"These books, which are primarily visual, had the opportunity to show, rather than tell."

"Here we've got the golf balls right now for the extra part of the eyes."

"I feel like this is more than just a movie it's a cinematic experience."

"When you become a gospel artist, especially when you start off a song like 'No Gray,' which to me was a testimony song, not a preach song."

"Ultimately just creating and expressing yourself and just go, I really want this to be like a Renaissance, rebirth of just people's artistic abilities being manifest in this world."

"Music of the spheres stands alone in a lot of ways."

"Hip-hop is about The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in our community. Artists are gonna make art about reality."

"I feel like hip-hop belonged to you in a special way back in the day."

"Utopia overall is everything it needed to be, with more than enough good ideas to make an album that makes an impact. It perfectly captures the dark yet colorful spirit of what made Rodeo so special in the first place."

"The artist must aim to put something of the truth of their experience onto the page."

"When we see any kind of artist sharing their work, it's usually quite easy to recognize how much they probably need to do that."

"Our job is to communicate the canvas, but we're too crazy to continue painting in the lines of that canvas unless we have people holding us accountable."

"It's funny how the silence between games ended up mirroring the silence between songs in a Half-Life game..."

"Newcomers will see the magic... the slightly over the top feel... more flexibility in the movement..."

"Bo Burnham fully encapsulates what it means to be a creator."

"I just kind of let the vocals naturally write themselves in a way where I don't think too much."

"Just trying to immortalize my story on a beat."

"I'm gonna print out a bunch of horses on paper, right? And then what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna pin them, I'm gonna write every member's name on it, and then I'm gonna pin it on the board."

"Creative projects... it's like putting out little bottles into the ocean. It's like you never know where they're gonna go."

"Get paid for the stuff you want to make instead of getting paid for the stuff that other people want you to make."

"Surely the most memetastic of all of the Death Grips tracks... it's strange and obfuscated but it's... a lot to take in."

"I think ultimately she really demonstrated strength through her dancing, and I think that was really beautiful to see."

"I just think it's important that [the music] has a point, it makes the point, and it doesn't overdo it and it doesn't underdo it."

"She's often photographed with fun colored hair, rainbow eyeliner looks, in costumes that have confetti and fire coming out of her breasts."

"I might call this song to the galaxy because that's what I'll keep up. I might call this [__] sent to the galaxy you know yeah."

"An album is just so much bigger an album is so important and this is a story tracked by track."

"I think music is personal. You relate the song to the person if they're a great artist singing that song."

"I think you fit perfectly into the space of being able to paint pictures of reality."

"In 2004, he released his solo album called 'Fear of a Mixed Planet.'"

"I really enjoyed making this image, it's just really zoomed in details on a familiar target to me."

"We have no idea what's gonna happen, but we're just gonna just create something out there."

"The woman is looking straight at the viewer and it made audiences a little uncomfortable."

"You don't necessarily have to be a master at every part of draftsmanship to say interesting things."

"It's just like a study, so it doesn't need to be super duper detailed."

"Drake gives his best work in adversity... when he's mad at Kanye, he said 'that's when the [expletive] got into the beef with Pusha T...'"

"It's an act of communication you're engaging in."

"I loved making it. I loved creating something that others wanted."

"Why like just because I think that's his art man?"

"When you're an artist you're always going to create, yeah, you're always going to create art."

"Apple products can help bring out the creative genius in everyone."

"I figured if I was gonna be drawing a pride month inspired artwork of some of my favorite characters like this I was going to make sure to give it the most colorful confetti covered rainbow energy that I possibly could."

"Kubo appears to be having a lot of fun with this chapter, you can really tell that Kubo's health is back in top shape."

"The sheer amount of creativity in the fan art, custom dolls, YouTube animations, reviews, and more is really awesome to see."

"Every element of this film is a celebration of the limitless potential of art."

"It's a gift, you know, and films are made to be seen."

"Creativity wise, often through those darkest moments, that's where some of the best work comes out."

"I want to just do whatever I want to do, put it out not care about sales not look at sales not think about any success matrix or reviews just have fun."

"To Pimp a Butterfly is an album that actualizes everything that hip-hop as a tool of expression can be."

"I don't think of acting as an art form...you do it because you have to do it...painters paint, actors act."

"It genuinely sounds as if these two different trios are battling for supremacy. It's great and it really does elevate this record if you've listened to it in that fashion."

"Daft Punk did... let's just make a moment make a whatever create a reaction type of response."

"The original films had a richness to them, they felt more real."

"Musically, let the journey creatively take us there."

"Capturing emotions in your work can deeply resonate with your audience."