Quotes About Expression

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.