Quotes About Expression

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.