Quotes About Expression

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could get a lot more work on TV playing clean but it's never interesting.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.