Quotes About Expression

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.

I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.