Quotes About Expression

I know that the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.

It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

I want to be a living work of art.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.