Quotes About Expression

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.

The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.

The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression...Only a few truly love it.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.