Quotes about Expression

In the beginning, I was a painter, but the moment I stood in front of the public and expressed my ideas using my body as the object and subject of the work, immediately it was clear that this is my best medium. I struggled with acceptance; my early career was hell. But it took me all these years to create a foundation so that performance would become accepted in the same way as photography and video. You have to believe that you're right, even if everybody believes you are wrong.

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.

We often think of prayer as nothing more than words spoken to God, but maybe it's more than that. Prayer is not a monologue; it's a dialogue. We speak to God with everything from words to groans to thoughts. And God speaks to us through dreams, desires, promptings, impressions, and ideas.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.