• The music I want to make is something people can relate to, or music where I can somehow be that voice that they can't find for themselves.
  Christina Aguilera Quotes
• It's my place to free the person I am inside. Because in real life I guess you could say I'm a little introverted.
  Christina Aguilera Quotes
• I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist or I'd draw a ram's head really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect spiderman.
  Jean Michel Basquiat Quotes
• I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
  Johnny Depp Quotes
• I made some sh*t that I wanted to hear. The Slim Shady EP, I lashed out on everybody who talked sh*t about me.
  Eminem Quotes
• An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• . . I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
  Jackson Pollock Quotes
• We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.
  Mark Rothko Quotes
• I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
  Mark Rothko Quotes
• If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
  Mark Rothko Quotes
• I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confesse that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.
  Andy Warhol Quotes
• The longing for beauty is especially strong in me. I require also in my art aesthetics and beauty. And I express these in my own way.
  Andy Warhol Quotes