Quotes About Expression

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

I'm too passionate about my work...Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

May you always work like you don't need the money; May you always love like you've never been hurt; and May you always dance like there's nobody watching.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.