Quotes about Expression

Art is the objectification of feeling.

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.

I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out.

Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.

I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

Apart from the occasional bit of dad dancing, I really can't dance.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.