Quotes About Expression

The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

The thing that makes me want to proceed and finish a song is when it really touches me and makes me feel something.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.

I'm continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

What I think is important about essayists - about the essay, as opposed to a lot of personal writing that kind of finds its way into public view - is that the material really has to be presented in a processed way.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page have I thought through it fully.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.