Quotes About Expression

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.