Quotes About Expression

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.

I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.