Quotes About Expression

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

I never practice; I always play.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

All good work requires self-revelation.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

The work has to have room to breathe.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.