Quotes About Expression

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

About my method of work: first it's the state of mind—Elation (joy).

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Evangelion is my life and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

I know how guys talk, so I'm not easily offended. Guys can fight and be best friends five minutes later. Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.