Quotes About Expression

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

Work is love made visible.

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.